Dr. Jill Simons

Sen. Hawley says he’s introducing legislation to ban mifepristone — he’s gotten super frustrated with the pace of the FDA’s safety review

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Today, we are announcing the launch of the "Doctor, Heal Thyself" initiative. Children deserve evidence-based, biologically grounded pediatric care. Thank you @DailySignal for breaking this story.

So proud of this brave girl! Doctors take an oath to do no harm. We must be the healers and protect children from those who choose to continue to push this radical gender ideology on them. #doctorsprotectingchildren @ACPeds

Every parent should know about this new result. For kids with ADHD, proper sleep might work better than drugs can to help your child. And that's not just true for kids with ADHD!

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ACPeds applauds @ASPS_News for now protecting minors from sex-rejecting surgeries. Dr. Al Oliva, board certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon and member of @ACPeds released the following quote: "As a surgeon, I know how invasive and permanent sex-rejecting surgeries are on children and adolescents. Youth with sexual identity disorder are already going through so much suffering, and their underlying psychological problems should be addressed instead of medicalizing them and exposing them to harmful and irreversible procedures that will destroy their fertility, sexual function, bone and brain maturation and have serious metabolic consequences, with no evidence that their underlying psychological problems will improve. Lawmakers must continue to pass legislation to protect our kids from such interventions."

Listen to me talk with @drdrew about why this is the greatest medical scandal probably ever.

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This is a promising sign and a way forward for protecting children everywhere.

@benryanwriter OK, all you pediatric hospitals and physicians performing so-called gender affirming care, start reserving millions of dollars for your future lawsuits. They’re coming.

The Tale of Two Contagions In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood. This was an entirely new patient population. Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases. The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire. Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness. Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger. And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time. Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier. And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched. Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact. And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral. The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans. And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans. Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness. Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm. And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts — while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past.

@NIHDirector_Jay Thank you. Only when medicine respects the dignity of human life can medicine be a respected, trusted profession. Thank you on behalf of the future of humanity and the good doctors @ACPeds

Science moves forward. Our policies should too. We’re investing in modern, cutting-edge research instead of relying on antiquated technologies. Read more in my statement: ➡️ bit.ly/4b7qSJH

This analogy corrects much of the distortion on the question facing the justices and sex-based categories👇🏻 “A heavyweight boxer can’t compete as a featherweight. An adult can’t join a children’s league. These rules don’t ‘ban’ anyone from sports; they preserve categories that are necessary for safety and fairness.” - @ManhattanInst’s @SwipeWright wsj.com/opinion/the-tr…

@DailyCaller @HawleyMO The doctors of the American College of Pediatricians can answer this question without hesitation- “No, men can’t get pregnant.” Support these doctors! Partners with us to end the harms being done to children @ACPeds #doctorsprotectingchildren

🚨WATCH: Doctor UNABLE to answer if men can get pregnant. @HawleyMO: Do you think that man can get pregnant?" Dr. Nisha Verma: "I'm not really sure what the goal of the question is..."

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox—two critical cases in the protection of women’s sports. These cases challenge state laws in West Virginia and Idaho that prohibit males from participating in women’s and girls’ sports. In September, ACPeds filed amicus briefs in both cases in support of the states defending women and girls. acpeds.org/acpeds-urges-t…

"Title IX was designed to guarantee equal opportunity for women, but allowing men to compete against women has undermined and negated women’s successes. It has also displaced women and girls in sports competitions because of males’ biological advantage." Full commentary: dailysignal.com/2026/01/12/the…

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases involving the protection of women's sports. @ACPeds filed amicus briefs in both of those cases and trusts that SCOTUS will restore common sense, fairness, and safety in women's sports by recognizing the biological reality that men and women are different. dailysignal.com/2026/01/12/the… @DailySignal

HUGE day today for women, girls, sports, medicine and all of humanity. Truth will prevail- Sex is unchangeable. The Supreme Court will protect this biological reality dailysignal.com/2026/01/12/the…