Dr. Jill Simons

Patients, I tell them things they don't want to hear all the time.

They're overweight.

They need to exercise more.

They have diabetes.

They have cancer.

You can't lie to a child that they can be any sex they want.

They're either a male or a female.

And then what happens is that...

they uh they they don't question why a child is uh struggling with this and so the whole underlying problem is ignored and i think the media is is just echoing voices they're hearing is this ideology and it needs to come back to the doctors because uh the doctors can stop this today they can stop this this afternoon they can stop prescribing these

these puberty blockers, they can stop doing surgeries.

They can stop recommending that this is how we treat children.

So, first of all, I have no knowledge of the medical care or mental health care that the shooter may or may not have received.

I know what you all know.

But I can tell you from family is that this tears them apart.

And again, these parents are coming to their doctor saying,

Trying to figure out how to help their child.

Yeah, they need to look at the doctors and they need to investigate who was caring for this child, what was being prescribed.

It's not just about investigating these drugs.

It needs to be investigated who's doing this and holding them accountable because we know better.

We have the evidence that they do harm.