Dr. Jill Simons
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Executive Director, @ACPeds. Board Certified Pediatrician
Joined May 2023
A group of pediatricians, medical organizations, and policy organizations have signed a declaration urging a stop to the promotion of harmful interventions on children with gender dysphoria. Comment and repost if you agree! Then sign the declaration at https://t.co/fcWgwBF5cX
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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
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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
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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’
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"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:
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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
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Here's why women must be protected in sports: Men are fundamentally and biologically different from women. The Supreme Court must listen.
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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
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Here's why women must be protected in sports: Men are fundamentally and biologically different from women. The Supreme Court must listen.
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On the eve of Supreme Court arguments on women’s sports, it’s worth noting exactly what the ACLU is asking the Court to do. In this brief, the ACLU takes issue with Idaho’s legal definition of biological sex, which is based on “reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal
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“If you’re a parent, don’t ever let a doctor tell you, essentially blackmail you, into thinking that you must accede to a transition for your child because, if you don't, the child will kill themselves…Scientific evidence does not support that.” —@NIHDirector_Jay
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As stated by the American College of Pediatricians, side effects of puberty blockers can include “osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment, and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility.”
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The U S House of Representatives has passed legislation banning so-called gender transition procedures for minors, but the measure looks likely to stall in the closely divided U S Senate
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WATCH LIVE: HHS announces actions to protect children from harmful medical interventions https://t.co/0WL8qIB2cG
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@SenGillibrand HHS has terminated multiple federal grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), totaling around $18-20 million and for good reason. Consider their recent track record. They have presided over the greatest decline to the health of our children that America has ever seen.
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Your support enables us to continue protecting and advocating for what is Best for Children. Help us produce ethically and scientifically sound policy for pediatricians, parents, and policymakers. Please consider giving today! https://t.co/izT1WU23B1
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🚨NEW: Yesterday, HHS re-released its major report on pediatric gender medicine after putting it through post-publication peer review. The responses from America’s top medical organizations were a stunning display of incompetence and cowardice. 🔗 https://t.co/QA4dqbKE28 HHS
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Advocates of transgender medical interventions often seek to silence critics, rather than engaging in a debate on the science—and one of the authors of the Department of Health and Human Services' report on the issue says he thinks he knows why.
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A new HHS review reveals why transgender activists seek to silence debate, according to one of the review's contributors, Leor Sapir.
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HHS commissioned a diverse group of authors to engage in the most comprehensive study to date of the treatment of children and adolescents for gender dysphoria. The findings in the peer reviewed report are clear: sex-rejecting procedures for children are dangerous.
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Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians @DrJillSimons recommends The Sex Development Handbook as an essential read for high school to graduate level scholars and beyond. Order it here: https://t.co/Up7yvnIxlZ
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Medical societies have replaced merit, empiricism, and open inquiry with fashionable political orthodoxies advanced under the banner of social justice, argues a new paper in the American Journal of Medicine. Our experience with @AmerAcadPeds supports this troubling observation:🧵
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My apologies to Ms. Chiles on misspelling her first name. It would have been even more embarrassing if I had misspelled this on something as important as an Amicus Brief submitted to the SCOTUS right @TrevorProject?
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American College Of Pediatricians Issues New Warning On Dangers Of Marijuana - Connecticut Centinal
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A national group of pediatricians has released a fresh warning about the dangers of marijuana use sparked by results of a new report citing that over 40% of drivers who die in motor vehicle accidents...
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