Transgender HHS Official: ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care Will Be Normalized

Dr. Rachel Levine is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) transgender Assistant Secretary of Health. “gender-affirming” care and that these practices will become more common in the near future.

Levine stated that he was a Connecticut Children’s Grand Rounds host. “gender-affirming” The care was the “highest support” Biden administration, condemned harsh criticism from medical professionals who advocated for “gender-affirming” Care can include radical procedures such as the removal of genitals.

“I think that these attacks are ideologically and politically motivated,” Levine accused, while ignoring the concern of many that such care damages children. “I think they’re being done for primarily political purposes throughout the country.”

Levine claimed that support was for “gender-affirming” Care would flourish, declaring “I’m a positive and optimistic person, and I choose to be positive, optimistic. And I think that the wheel will turn on this, and I think it is not going to be politically advantageous; it wasn’t particularly in 2022, and so I think that as we look to all the different elections in 2024, I think the next two years are going to be challenging but I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that and that this issue won’t be politically and socially such a minefield.”

Levin attacked the states that have passed laws restricting abortion. “gender-affirming” care, snapping, “You live in a state, in Connecticut, where it is unlikely that those regressive, negative and discriminatory laws will pass and be implemented.”

Andy Harris (R-MD), a Maryland anesthesiologist, is the only Republican in Maryland’s congressional delegation. He serves as the Co-Chair to the Pro-Life Caucus and said that it’s “reprehensible for a government official—let alone the Assistant U.S. Secretary of HHS to promote the genital mutilation of minors as becoming a standard practice in the U.S.”

“As a physician, I was proud to co-sponsor the ‘Protect Children’s Innocence Act’ which would prohibit harmful medical procedures used to treat gender dysphoria in transgender minors, including puberty blockers and surgeries in which minors alter their body to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex,” Harris said this, Fox News reported.

“Many pediatricians, particularly pediatric endocrinologists, have expressed serious concerns about the use of puberty blockers, hormone blockers, and sex transition surgeries in minors,” Harris was also mentioned. “These doctors know that these medications and procedures can impact children’s bone growth, fertility, and risk of breast and prostate cancer. Meanwhile, HHS has pressured providers to provide this care or else face discrimination lawsuits. We must protect our children.”

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