EXCLUSIVE: Alternative Pediatrician Org Urges Doctors to Reject Transgenderism

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The American College of Pediatricians is launching an initiative to encourage doctors to reject transgender procedures for minors.

The American College of Pediatricians, the socially conservative alternative to the American Academy of Pediatricians, launched the “Doctor, Heal Thyself” initiative, which aims to advance biologically grounded pediatric care in response to major medical organizations supporting irreversible medical interventions for minors.

The organization is reaching out to 67,000 pediatricians, inviting them to “join in restoring integrity to pediatric medicine.”

The American Academy of Pediatricians supports so-called gender-affirming care for minors, including puberty blockers, hormone replacement regimens, and irreversible surgeries for adolescents, on a “case-by-case basis.”

“Gender-affirming care remains evidence-based, medically necessary care that improves the health and well-being of transgender youth,” the organization said in a statement after the Supreme Court ruled last year that states can ban transgender procedures for minors.

Alternatively, the American College of Pediatricians protects “the biological integrity of children against transgender ideology, and [is] the only pediatric organization protecting preborn children and the conscience rights of health care professionals.”

Recently, a New York jury found two doctors liable for malpractice for performing a gender-transition surgery on a minor, the first successful detransitioner malpractice lawsuit. 

The American Medical Association has also recently cited an “absence of clear evidence” for benefits of gender-transition surgeries for minors and said the surgeries should “generally” be delayed until adulthood. Meanwhile, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons issued no qualifier in saying the surgeries should be delayed until adulthood.

Simons believes reaching doctors is the key to protecting children from irreversible transgender medical interventions.

“We know that there’s litigation out there, there’s legislation, but that’s a slow go at getting to the goal of stopping these procedures,” Dr. Jill Simons, executive Director of ACPeds, told The Daily Signal. “But if you think about it, if you can reach the doctors, this stops instantly.”

“If doctors stop prescribing, if they stop doing surgeries, it stops today, end of story,” she continued. “It’s the simplest, easiest, best way, and it has lasting, immediate change.”

The majority of pediatricians disapprove of transgender procedures for minors but are afraid they will lose their jobs or be the targets of hate if they admit it, Simons said.

“Common sense is on our side, but also in having one on one conversations with pediatricians and conferences and the support we’ve been given, I think there’s the majority, even the vast majority, of pediatricians believe, as we do,” Simons said, “that the so-called gender affirming care protocols put out by the major medical institutions of the United States are harmful.”

Simons wants doctors who feel isolated to know they are not alone.

“It takes a few people speaking out, saying this is wrong for a whole organization to change course,” she said. “That’s what we’re hoping to do here.”

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