A photo of the winner’s podium, captured by Elizabeth Wilson, mother of Ahnaleigh Wilson, who placed second. The faces of the other athletes are blurred as they are minors, and parental consent was not obtained. May 18. 2024, Cashmere, WA. 

From LifeSiteNews

By Doug Mainwaring

Sex ‘cannot be changed,’ and girls forced to compete against gender-confused males ‘face unequal competition’ and ‘higher injury risk,’ the American College of Pediatricians warns.

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear two cases that may settle whether states are legally permitted to maintain the integrity of girls’ and women’s sports, medical experts have filed a brief urging the justices to allow states to protect female student athletes from being forced to compete with gender-confused males.

They cite the unfairness and dangers of “prioritiz[ing] gender ideology over biology.”

In the two cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., lower courts have undermined women’s sports laws and forced schools to let boys compete in female sports.

‘Transitioning’ to a different sex is biologically impossible’

The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) – one of the nation’s leading science-oriented medical organizations – explains in its brief that “When males compete in female categories, girls predictably lose roster spots and scholarships, face unequal competition, and in some sports bear higher injury risk. Those are real medical and developmental harms to minors … sex-separated teams are evidence-based safeguards for fairness and equal opportunity.”

“Sex is not assigned, and it cannot be changed. It is a stable biological reality, and grounding athletic classifications in that reality is necessary to maintain fairness,” explains ACPeds.

They remind the justices that “Biological sex [is] an immutable and objectively verifiable trait” and that “‘Transitioning’ to a different sex is biologically impossible.”

‘Testosterone suppression does not eliminate male performance advantages’

Across all sports, “men outperform women by margins ranging from 10% in swimming and rowing to over 50% in baseball pitching,” the brief explains. “And hormone suppression does not close the gap: even after years of treatment, male athletes retain strength and endurance levels above those of female peers … athletic advantages that hormone suppression and surgeries cannot erase.”

“While dismissing the well-documented physiological differences between males and females, the [lower courts] embraced the unproven claim that identity and hormone [use] can erase sex-based advantages,” wrote the health professionals. “But that is false: the evidence shows these differences are in fact sex-based, not hormone level- based, and those differences amply justify sex segregated sports—and associated intimate spaces such as locker rooms.”

ACPeds is not the only group urging the Supreme Court to rule in favor of allowing states to protect girls’ sports competitions from gender-confused males.

Heroic former “transgender”-identifying individuals Billy Burleigh, KathyGrace Duncan, Laura Perry Smalts, and Jane Smith filed a brief in support of the ability of states “to protect young people from the harms of transitioning by not ‘affirming’ a student’s perception as a member of the opposite sex and instead maintaining separate sports teams for girls and boys.”

They contend that “research shows that an increasing number of youth and adults are detransitioning, indicating harm and lack of efficacy of the interventions” to chemically and surgically transition young people.

Riley Gaines and 32 current and former college athletes have filed a brief, explaining to the nine justices that they have been “harmed by the rules of college sports governing bodies that have authorized and continue to authorize men to take women’s places and share women’s locker rooms, showers and other private spaces in college sports.”

“The transgender eligibility rules of college athletic associations and conferences have system-wide discriminatory impacts on women,” write the former college athletes, who say they “have been harmed by the college sports governing bodies imposing transgender eligibility rules.”

From LifeSiteNews

By Stephen Kokx

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) cited concerns about febrile seizures for children under 4.

An immunization committee whose members were selected by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is supporting a tweak to the childhood vaccination schedule.

Over the course of a two-day meeting last week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to recommend against the combined measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine for children under the age of 4 due to concerns about febrile seizures.

Per the Daily Caller, the committee also voted “to recommend Hepatitis B testing for mothers but delayed an anticipated vote that would have postponed the first dose of Hepatitis B vaccine from the day of birth to one month of age. Instead, children ages 12-15 months would receive separate MMR and varicella shots.”

ACIP chairman Martin Kulldorff emphasizes that “every child will have access to be vaccinated against” measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox).

ACIP voted to recommend standalone chickenpox vaccination in toddlers to reduce their risk of febrile seizures. pic.twitter.com/bXxP1d0hsg

— CDC (@CDCgov) September 19, 2025

The committee’s continued endorsement of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, however, comes just weeks after Kennedy argued for a link between the vaccine and autism.

“In 2002, CDC did an internal study of Fulton County, Georgia, children, and looked at children who got the MMR vaccine on time and compared those to kids who got them later. The data from that study showed that black boys who got the vaccine on time had a 260% greater chance of getting an autism diagnosis than children who waited,” he explained during a Senate hearing.

mRNA pioneer Dr. Robert Malone noted on social media platform X recently argued that there needs to be better guiding principles at the CDC.

“Someone has to start enforcing higher scientific standards on the CDC. It has been operating on autopilot without an on-site director for years. I guess it is going to be up to the ACIP members to start holding the CDC personnel to more rigorous scientific standards. Tiresome. Not our job, we are unpaid volunteers, but someone has to do it,” he said.

True story.
Someone has to start enforcing higher scientific standards on the CDC. It has been operating on autopilot without an on-site director for years. I guess it is going to be up to the ACIP members to start holding the CDC personnel to more rigorous scientific… https://t.co/coHi25eueq

— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) September 22, 2025

Kennedy has taken an aggressive approach in his bid to “Make America Healthy Again.” In June, he removed all 17 members of the ACIP, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Medical freedom activists praised the move as an overdue ousting of Big Pharma’s influence on the committee while industry lobbyists expressed outrage.

Last month, Kennedy revoked emergency use authorization for the COVID-19 shot. In May, he removed the COVID shot from the CDC’s recommended schedule for healthy children (ages 6 months and older) and pregnant women. Relatedly, Florida’s surgeon general declared that the state would end all vaccine mandates for children.

In August, Kennedy announced he was “winding down” almost $500 million worth of mRNA vaccine projects and rejecting future exploration of the technology in favor of more conventional vaccines. He also denounced the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for recommending vaccines created by its top corporate supporters without disclosing conflicts of interest.