{"id":1909727,"date":"2023-04-04T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-hosts-roundtable-on-affirming-transgender-kids\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:12:37","slug":"white-house-hosts-roundtable-on-affirming-transgender-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-hosts-roundtable-on-affirming-transgender-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Hosts Roundtable On \u2018Affirming Transgender Kids\u2019"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fwhite-house-hosts-roundtable-on-affirming-transgender-kids%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=1909727&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<p>Last week, on the occasion of \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility,\u201d several senior officials of the Biden administration organized a roundtable discussion at the White House on the theme of \u201caffirming transgender kids.\u201d United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, along with Susan Rice, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, hosted the session, which was attended by \u201ctransgender kids and their parents.\u201d They talked about their identities, joys, hopes, and challenges, and also discussed the efforts of some states to ban what they refer to as sex change surgeries for minors.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the meeting, a readout of the session from the White House highlighted that families participating in the talk pointed out that when parents support and accept their transgender children, and when they have access to the support they need at school and in their communities, transgender kids can thrive. White House officials expressed gratitude to these families for their unwavering advocacy and bravery in challenging discriminatory laws.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration reiterated its strong commitment to standing up for the rights of transgender children and their parents, and to challenging state laws that are harmful to them. On the other hand, Republican Governors like Ron DeSantis of Florida and Kim Reynolds of Iowa have enacted bans on child sex change treatments and procedures. The White House expressed its opposition to similar legislative proposals in Arizona, Texas, and Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The recent roundtable discussion has taken place a few days after a shocking event in which a 28-year-old woman, who identified as a man, killed three children and three adults in Nashville, Tennessee. The attack came weeks after Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee had endorsed legislation that bans sex change procedures, hormones, and puberty blockers, as well as sexually suggestive drag shows in public or near children.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent report from Grand View Research, the transgender surgeries industry is expected to reach a $5 billion valuation by 2030. While insurance companies like Aetna and Unicare may cover some of the components of sex reassignment surgeries, including hysterectomies and ovariectomies, the report says that \u201cgovernment support is also driving the market\u201d through Medicare coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, the White House has faced severe criticism for neglecting to mention that the motivation behind the Nashville massacre appears to have been centered on the victims\u2019 theologically conservative Christian faith. Nevertheless, senior administration officials remain vocal about their support for the \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility\u201d and have used the occasion to claim that those who identify as a member of the opposite sex are \u201cunder attack\u201d in the United States. A statement from the White House noted that since President Biden\u2019s first day in office, his administration has taken historic steps to advance equality, dignity, and safety for transgender Americans, and he is the first President in history to discuss the importance of expanding equality and combating attacks on the rights of transgender Americans in every State of the Union or joint session of Congress address. However, conservative politicians have advanced hundreds of anti-transgender laws in various states, putting the fundamental rights and freedoms of trans Americans at risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior officials in the Biden administration hosted a roundtable at the White House about \u201caffirming transgender kids\u201d last week on \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility.\u201d United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice hosted a number of \u201ctransgender kids and their parents\u201d on Friday to discuss efforts in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1909728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7535,4997,3653,4247,7052,4019,3765],"class_list":["post-1909727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-affirming","tag-hosts","tag-house","tag-kids","tag-roundtable","tag-transgender","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909727","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}