Last Wednesday, the DOJ introduced Victims of Chemical or Surgical Mutilation Act (VCSMA) to safeguard children from chemical and surgical interventions, giving families the right to take legal action.
In a recent interview with Alpha News, Dr. Jill Simons, Executive Director of ACPeds, urged doctors to remain vigilant against gender ideology and emphasized their responsibility to speak truthfully about the risks and harms of sex-trait interventions.
Alabama lawmakers pre-filed House Bill 23, aiming to keep discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation out of K–12 classrooms, ban pronoun misuse by teachers, and remove LGBTQ+ symbols from schools.
Protecting Children in Hospitals: In the past week, three more hospitals—Nemours Children’s Hospital (DE), University of Michigan Children’s Hospital (MI), and Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital (WA)—have stopped providing harmful interventions to minors. Other hospitals can be found on our website.
Sincerely,
The Biological Integrity Team
The American College of Pediatricians
DOJ Proposes Legislature to Protect Minors from Harmful Procedures
Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice introduced the Victims of Chemical or Surgical Mutilation Act (VCSMA)—a legislative proposal aiming to defend minors by prohibiting healthcare professionals or institutions from performing chemical or surgical interventions and providing a private right of action for children and their parents.
“The Department of Justice has heard from far too many families devastated by medical procedures that fly in the face of basic biology,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi, in response to numerous lawsuits filed by victims of these harmful practices.
ACPeds Director Urges Doctors to Protect Children
In an interview with Alpha News, Dr. Jill Simons, Executive Director of ACPeds, offered her professional perspective following the tragedy in Minneapolis, emphasizing that “when struggling children are told by doctors that they were born in the wrong body, that’s not only not true—it’s malpractice.”
She urged her medical colleagues—and parents—to remain alert to the harms of gender ideology, stressing that doctors have a responsibility to inform families and protect children from harmful interventions.
Alabama Bill Would End Gender Ideology in Classrooms
Alabama lawmakers have pre-filed House Bill 23, which would prohibit any classroom discussion of gender identity or sexual orientation in public schools from pre-K through 12th grade.
The bill also bans teachers from using pronouns that do not align with a student’s biological sex and bars displays of LGBTQ+ flags or symbols in classrooms, aiming to refocus schools on academics rather than liberal ideological initiatives.
