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This is a daily civil bonus episode for Wednesday, September 27th. I'm Virginia Allen and that was Dr. Jill Simons. Dr. Simons serves as the executive director of the American College of pediatricians.

A new initiative of the American College of pediatricians is addressing a disturbing trend in medicine right now. Dr. Simons says she is watching as some of her medical professional colleagues are putting a social agenda above science and best medical practices.

In response, the American College of pediatricians has today launched the biological integrity initiative and Dr. Simons is joining us here on the show to explain what the resources are that this biological integrity initiative provides both to medical professionals but also to parents and teachers and professors and those who are curious about learning more about the true effects that things like hormone treatments and puberty blockers have on young people.

Stay tuned for our conversation after this.

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It is my pleasure today to be joined by Dr. Jill Simons. Dr. Simons is the executive director of the American College of pediatricians. Dr. Simons, thank you so much for being here today.

Thank you for having me.

We'll go ahead and share a little bit of the mission of the American College of pediatricians. What is your aim, especially in this moment in history and just talk a little bit about how you all were founded and where your goals are right now.

So the American College of pediatricians was founded a little over 20 years ago and it was founded by a group of pediatricians who were unhappy with the direction that the AAP and other organizations were going

in that they were becoming more political minded and ignoring some of the science and abandoning some of those principles we hold dear in medicine.

So they started the American College of pediatricians and the mission from the beginning has been to do what's best for children and that means supporting them and supporting their families and also using sound research and science when we make decisions for medical care for children.

And Dr. Simons, how long have you been a pediatrician?

Gosh, I've been almost 20 years so about the same timeframe and I'm fairly new to the American College of pediatricians probably about five or six years ago.

I was driving to my morning rounds to the nursery and I heard Dr. Cotella talk about the American College of pediatricians and specifically she was talking about the transgender ideology which was just kind of starting to take off.

And I thought, wow, there's other pediatricians who think like I do and it was just so welcoming to not feel isolated and so that's when I joined.

That's wonderful. So when did you and you somewhat answered it in that question but when did you begin to notice that there was this shift taking place not just in medicine but specifically in the pediatric world?

I'm paraphrasing your words a little bit here but the pediatric practices were starting to be more so dictated by a social agenda than purely by medicine and science.

So I think you know the shift may be started a couple of decades ago with what the founders of ACP's noticed.

Personally and maybe for most of us it's been the last 10 years about the last decade where some of these really radical ideologies like the transgender ideology have really started to have an effect on medicine.

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