{"id":172799,"date":"2021-02-25T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=172799"},"modified":"2021-02-25T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T18:14:34","slug":"very-complicated-dr-rachel-levine-dodges-sen-pauls-issue-about-sex-adjustments-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-complicated-dr-rachel-levine-dodges-sen-pauls-issue-about-sex-adjustments-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Complicated\u2019: Dr. Rachel Levine Dodges Sen. Paul\u2019s Issue About Sex Adjustments For Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fvery-complicated-dr-rachel-levine-dodges-sen-pauls-issue-about-sex-adjustments-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=172799&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-->\n<div>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pjimage-6-1200x720-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/>          <\/div>\n<p>     Dr. Rachel Levine evaded queries from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Thurs regarding Levine\u2019s assistance for giving kids puberty blockers and sex-alter surgeries.     <\/p>\n<p>     Levine, who&#8217;s President Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0nominee for assistant Health insurance and Human Services (HHS) secretary, fielded questions from various lawmakers throughout a confirmation hearing, but Paul asked especially blunt, pointed, and graphic questions.     <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cGenital mutilation has been nearly universally condemned,\u201d Paul began, citing the planet Health Organization (WHO), the US Children\u2019s Fund, the US Population Fund. \u201cBased on the WHO, genital mutilation is recognized internationally as a violation of human rights. Genital mutilation is known as particularly egregious because, because the WHO notes, it really is nearly always completed on minors and is really a violation of the rights of children.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>     Paul, who received his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine in 1988, continued to note that a lot of genital mutilation worldwide isn&#8217;t typically performed by force but instead with regard to \u201csocial convention, social norm, the social pressure to conform; to accomplish what others do and also have been doing, aswell the necessity to be accepted socially and worries to be rejected by the city.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>     Paul warned that American culture is along the way of socially normalizing sex changes for minors, either through puberty-blocking hormones or surgery.     <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cDr. Levine, you have supported both allowing minors to get hormone blockers to avoid them from going right through puberty, in addition to surgical destruction of a minor\u2019s genitalia,\u201d Paul grilled, noting the permanent ramifications of such measures. He cited a statistic from the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) that \u201c80 to 95 percent of pre-pubertal children with gender dysphoria will experience resolution by late adolescence or even subjected to medical intervention and social affirmation.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>     Levine, who&#8217;s transgender, dodged Paul\u2019s question whether minors can handle making the decision as life-altering as changing one\u2019s sex.     <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cWell, senator, many thanks for your fascination with this question,\u201d Levine said. \u201cTransgender medicine is really a highly complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care which have been developed. And if\u00a0I&#8217;m luckily enough to be confirmed because the assistant secretary of health, I&#8217;ll look forward to dealing with you as well as your office and arriving at your workplace and discussing the particulars of the standards of look after transgender medicine.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>     Paul noted Levine didn&#8217;t answer his question. \u201cLet\u2019s be considered a little more specific because you evaded the question. Can you support the federal government intervening to override the parents\u2019 consent to provide a kid puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and\/or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia?\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>     Citing Levine\u2019s support for \u201caccelerating\u201d such measures for \u201cstreet kids,\u201d Paul expressed his alarm that vulnerable children without homes or families will be permitted to have a sex change. He also gave the exemplory case of Keira Bell, a lady British citizen who later regretted taking testosterone and undergoing a double mastectomy.     <\/p>\n<p>     Levine again refused to answer Paul\u2019s question, reiterating exactly the same response directed at Paul\u2019s previous question.     <\/p>\n<p>     WATCH:     <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">     .     <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">     @RandPaul     <\/a>     : &#8220;Can you support the federal government intervening to override the parents&#8217; consent to provide a kid puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and\/or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia\u2026?     <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecretaryLevine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">     @SecretaryLevine     <\/a>     : &#8220;Transgender medicine is really a highly complex and nuanced field.&#8221;      <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ylKokhTMwo\">     pic.twitter.com\/ylKokhTMwo     <\/a>          <\/p>\n<p>     &#8211; Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer)      <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcexaminer\/status\/1364976284149800967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">     February 25, 2021     <\/a>          <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>     \u201cIgnore it in to the record that the witness refused to answer fully the question,\u201d Paul said. \u201cThe question is really a very specific one: should minors be making these momentous decisions?\u201d He continued to describe why such procedures are medically unprecedented.     <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">     Sen.      <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">     @RandPaul     <\/a>     : &#8220;You&#8217;re ready to let a take what to prevent their puberty, and you also think they reunite?! \u2026     <\/p>\n<p>     None of the drugs have already been approved because of this. They&#8217;re all used off-label\u2026 There is no long-term studies. We have no idea what happens in their mind!&#8221;      <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jI9zQlmNN4\">     pic.twitter.com\/jI9zQlmNN4     <\/a>          <\/p>\n<p>     &#8211; Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer)      <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcexaminer\/status\/1364977620627070979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">     February 25, 2021     <\/a>          <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>     Paul faced a backlash from his colleagues for his type of questioning. \u201cIt really is critical to me our nominees be treated with respect and our questions concentrate on their qualifications, instead of ideological and harmful misrepresentations,\u201d said Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA).     <\/p>\n<p>     In accordance with      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/rand-paul-launches-into-transphobic-rant-against-trans-nominee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">     The Daily Beast     <\/a>     , Ruben Gonzales, executive director of the LGBTQ Victory Institute, said in a statement: \u201cHis remarks echo the talking points of exactly the same organizations who said gay men deserved AIDS and that LGBTQ people ought to be criminalized. He explicitly attacked vulnerable trans youth for their own perceived political gain also it was a disgrace.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>          <strong>     Related     <\/strong>     :      <strong>          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/historic-and-deeply-qualified-biden-taps-transgender-pa-health-secretary-dr-rachel-levine-for-assistant-hhs-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">     \u2018Historic And Deeply Qualified\u2019: Biden Taps Transgender PA Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine For Assistant HHS Secretary     <\/a>          <\/strong>          <\/p>\n<p>          <em>     The Daily Wire is among America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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