Doctors Speak Out: Protecting Children from Irreversible Gender Treatments
Concerned Parents Association of London (CPAL) encourages all parents, educators, and policymakers to watch a vital discussion hosted by Genspect on YouTube featuring Dr. Jill Simons, Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), and Dr. Carrie Mendoza, Director of Genspect USA.
This recorded session, “Understanding the ACPeds’ Doctors Protecting Children Declaration,” lays out the clear and growing medical consensus against experimental gender treatments for minors. Launched on June 6, 2024, the Doctors Protecting Children Declaration has received overwhelming support, including over 51 million views via social media shares.
💬 What Is the Declaration?
The Declaration urges U.S. medical associations to immediately halt the promotion of social transition, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries in minors experiencing gender distress. The stance is aligned with international shifts—especially across European medical bodies—toward caution and evidence-based care.
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▶ Click here to watch the Genspect interview on YouTube
🎯 Key Learning Objectives from the Session:
Understand the “Doctors Protecting Children” Declaration and the coalition behind it.
Contrast European and American approaches to gender dysphoria in youth.
Gain insight into systemic factors shaping U.S. policy on pediatric gender medicine.
This session also qualifies for CME/CE credits for medical professionals. Details available here.
🔍 CPAL Highlights: Watch These Segments Closely
While the full discussion is highly informative, we recommend special attention to the following clips where key medical concerns are clearly articulated:
Children who naturally desist after puberty
⏱️ 9:09–10:10
The majority of children with gender dysphoria come to accept their sex without any medical intervention if allowed to go through natural puberty.Lack of evidence for medical gender interventions
⏱️ 11:00–11:56 and 17:17–18:50
ACPeds asserts there is no solid evidence that social transition, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgery reduce suicide risk or improve mental health outcomes.Dangers of social transition
⏱️ 16:35–17:35
Social transition may set a child on an irreversible medical path that cements gender confusion rather than resolves it.Parental involvement in medical decisions
⏱️ 41:40–43:06
Dr. Simons emphasizes that parents must remain central in decisions involving their child’s health and well-being—especially when the interventions are life-altering.
🧠 Final Thoughts
The Genspect–ACPeds collaboration presents a powerful rebuke of the current activist-driven model of pediatric gender medicine. As the UK, Sweden, Norway, and Finland pull back from medicalizing gender distress in youth, Canada and the U.S. must reckon with the consequences of continuing down a path unsupported by robust evidence.
We urge every concerned parent, teacher, and policymaker to take this content seriously. The tide is turning internationally—will North America follow?
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Most parents haven't a clue about what is going on in our schools and have no reason to question gender ideology until they run smack into it and rightfully fear for the health and welfare and future of a captured child who actually believes one can be born in the 'wrong' body and believes through indoctrination that there really is a way to alter that body into the 'right' one. The consequences go far beyond just that child, tragic as that may be. I recommend reading (thousands, if you so wish) the anecdotal cases through PITT (Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans) to see typical effects. Yet the London Board continues to follow the policy of hiding vital mental health issues of real children from real parents in the name of having greater care and concern about these children than the parents. This is how captured the 'educators' are (insert the correct term 'indoctrinators').
It is the policy makers and professional training and oversight bodies who push this ideology into every nook and cranny of public education starting with the flagpole. Teachers are just the tools and many of those who decline to go along with the ideology soon end up outside the profession. One branch of this activist ideology - there are many branches - is based on a belief that 'gender' is both real yet different from sex in mysterious ways but rightly subject to medical intervention and lifelong reliance on it as if this were a rational and reasonable solution to prepubescent discomfort about puberty. It's a belief that insists reality is wrong and those who disagree with this belief are morally suspect. The set of beliefs are malignant and toxic to social cohesion. The fundamental unit of that cohesion is the family. So parents rarely understand why this is so dangerous in practice because, by the time they do understand this on a personal level, the choice is to either be categorized and treated as Very Bad People or go along with the charade to get along. The cost is to see their child's mind subsumed by this delusional fantasy and, by believing reality is wrong and the family as enemy to the beliefs, be vulnerable to life-long and very serious medicalization trying to alter it by mutilating the physical body, altering its chemical composition to be at perpetual war with reality, and accepting sterility and side effects as just the cost of doing business. Genspect does a really good job providing knowledge about this ideology in practice and how it affects children. Mia Hughes is also another excellent source.
Public education enrollment is bleeding numbers and affecting transfer funds. These policies play their part.