{"id":1517767,"date":"2022-06-15T17:49:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T21:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517767"},"modified":"2022-06-15T17:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T21:49:21","slug":"biden-directs-hhs-to-expand-access-to-transgender-care-including-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-directs-hhs-to-expand-access-to-transgender-care-including-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Directs HHS To Expand Access to Transgender Care, Including For Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-directs-hhs-to-expand-access-to-transgender-care-including-for-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517767&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> will sign a \u201chistoric\u201d executive order Wednesday ordering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/health-and-human-services\">Department of Health and Human Services<\/a> to expand efforts to increase the ability of Americans (including children) who identify as transgender to obtain sex-change surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden believes that no one should face discrimination because of who they are or whom they love. Since President Biden took office, he has championed the rights of LGBTQI+ Americans and people around the world, accelerating the march towards full equality,\u201d the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/06\/15\/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-historic-executive-order-advancing-lgbtqi-equality-during-pride-month\/\">said in a fact sheet issued June 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The executive order will address the slew of Republican legislation banning transgender surgeries for minors and biological males from girls\u2019 spaces \u2014 legislation dubbed by the Biden administration as \u201clegislative attacks against LGBTQI+ children and families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will also \u201ccrack down\u201d on conversion therapy, which the Biden administration describes as \u201ca discredited and dangerous practice that seeks to suppress or change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQI+ people,\u201d ordering HHS to \u201cexplore guidance to clarify that federally-funded programs cannot offer so-called \u2018conversion therapy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 300 anti-LGBTQI+ laws have been introduced in state legislatures over the past year, and many of them specifically target transgender children and their parents by banning access to medical care and support at school,\u201d the Biden administration fact sheet said. \u201cPresident Biden is addressing these harmful, hateful, and discriminatory attacks head-on \u2013 not only by speaking up for America\u2019s families, but taking action to stand up to the bullies targeting LGBTQI+ people. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo help support impacted families, President Biden is charging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with protecting LGBTQI+ children and families from attacks on their access to health care, and has instructed HHS to release new sample policies for states on how to expand access to comprehensive health care for LGBTQI+ patients,\u201d the message continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President is also directing the Department of Education with addressing the impacts of state laws that target LGBTQI+ students, and has charged the department with releasing a sample school policy for achieving full inclusion for LGBTQI+ students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the order will specifically charge HHS to \u201cwork with states to promote expanded access to gender-affirming care.\u201d This is included under the section \u201csafeguarding healthcare and preventing LGGTQI+ Youth Suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gender affirming care is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/14\/walt-heyer-lgbtq-transgender\/\">a phrase<\/a> used by transgender activists and media that includes the more grisly sounding transgender top and bottom surgeries, such as removing a biological women\u2019s breasts, removing a biological man\u2019s genitals, sculpting a fake penis on a biological woman, facial feminization or facial masculinization, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Social affirmation, puberty blockers, and hormones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-house-early-trans-surgeries-hormones-are-crucial-for-kids-teens-who-identify-as-trans\">also fall under<\/a> the \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>Commentators, lawmakers, people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/01\/24\/transsexual-slams-planned-parenthood-aclu-womens-sports\/\">who identify as transgender<\/a>, and people who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/detransitioners-flood-social-media-with-testimony-photos-the-darkest-time-in-my-life\">formerly attempted transitions<\/a>\u00a0have expressed grave concerns about encouraging children or young people to explore transitions of any kind.<\/p>\n<p>A new analysis released Monday by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/heritage-foundation\">Heritage Foundation<\/a>\u00a0calls into question the widespread claim that giving puberty blockers and hormones to children who reject their biological sex prevents suicides \u2013 and grimly suggests the opposite may be true.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/gender\/report\/puberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-and-youth-suicide\">report<\/a> titled \u201cPuberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones, and Youth Suicide,\u201d the conservative think tank determined that causal conclusions being drawn between medical interventions and suicide among young people are not supported by data. The Washington-based foundation is hoping states use its findings to pursue policies strengthening parental involvement in such pivotal decisions for their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe claim that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones prevent suicides is being used by the Biden administration and state policymakers to ease access to those drugs,\u201d Jay Greene, a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/\">The Daily Wire<\/a>. \u201cAs it turns out, the science behind that claim is extremely weak and when the evidence is examined properly, it shows that making cross-sex treatments more widely available risks raising youth suicide rates rather than reducing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which have not yet gone through peer review, are particularly significant in light of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Biden<\/a>\u00a0administration\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-house-early-trans-surgeries-hormones-are-crucial-for-kids-teens-who-identify-as-trans\">claim<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cearly\u201d interventions are \u201ccrucial\u201d for the health of kids and teens who identify as\u00a0transgender and nonbinary. \u00a0In making those claims, the Biden administration is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/lgbtq-rights\/doctors-agree-gender-affirming-care-is-life-saving-care\">echoing<\/a>\u00a0groups like the ACLU and LGBTQ organizations like the Trevor Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will sign a \u201chistoric\u201d executive order Wednesday ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to expand efforts to increase the ability of Americans (including children) who identify as transgender to obtain sex-change surgeries. \u201cPresident Biden believes that no one should face discrimination because of who they are or whom they love. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":1517834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}