Sexual Identity Disorder and the Medical Scandal Harming Kids, a Pediatrician Explains with Dr. Jill Simons

What happens when the medical establishment stops protecting children — and starts encouraging medicalizing sexual identity confusion instead?

In this episode of Bioethics Babe, Dr. Jill Simons, a board-certified pediatrician and Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians, exposes how ideology has overtaken science and good medicine in the treatment of children with sexual identity disorder and how this puts vulnerable kids at risk.

Dr. Simons shares how her decades of experience in pediatrics led her to speak out against sex-rejecting interventions on children with sexual identity disorder — interventions which are not compassionate and leave lifelong physical and mental consequences.

We discuss:

• The hidden dangers of so-called “social affirmation” and early transition and why it locks kids into confusion
• The real risks of puberty blockers, tucking and binding practices, and sex-rejecting surgeries and how they endanger children’s physical and mental health
• Why informed consent and ethical medicine are being compromised in the name of iedology
• The claim that denying sex-rejecting interventions causes suicide
• How the American College of Pediatricians is fighting to restore medical integrity
• What the UK Cass Review revealed about the evidence for these interventions
• The mission behind the Doctors Protecting Children Declaration
• What parents, teachers, and policymakers can do to protect kids
• Why children’s brains — and bodies — are not ready for life-altering interventions
• The ethical duty of doctors to first, do no harm

Dr. Simons explains why she believes children deserve truth, not a pathway to sex-rejecting transition.

Watch now as we dive into the evidence, the ethics, and the hope for restoring integrity and compassion in pediatric medicine.

This is not just a medical issue — it’s a moral one.

This is a conversation every parent, teen, doctor, and policymaker needs to hear.

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Episode Resources:

• Biological Integrity
• Doctors Protecting Children Declaration
• American College of Pediatricians
• Biological Integrity General FAQs
• Biological Integrity General Fact Sheet
• Biological Integrity Breast Binding Fact Sheet
• Biological Integrity Genital Tucking Fact Sheet