{"id":2284053,"date":"2024-06-26T14:41:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emails-show-biden-admin-quietly-tried-to-remove-age-limits-for-trans-surgery-gave-infuriating-rationale\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:45:48","slug":"emails-show-biden-admin-quietly-tried-to-remove-age-limits-for-trans-surgery-gave-infuriating-rationale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emails-show-biden-admin-quietly-tried-to-remove-age-limits-for-trans-surgery-gave-infuriating-rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"Emails Show Biden Admin Quietly Tried to Remove Age Limits for Trans Surgery, Gave Infuriating Rationale"},"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\">32<\/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%2Femails-show-biden-admin-quietly-tried-to-remove-age-limits-for-trans-surgery-gave-infuriating-rationale%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=2284053&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>The article discusses the Biden administration&#8217;s reported \u200cinvolvement in lobbying the\u200b World Professional\u2063 Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to eliminate age restrictions \u200bfor transgender surgeries in their guidelines. It highlights\u200b leaked emails that suggest Rachel Levine, the \u2064HHS Assistant Secretary, pushed for removing these age\u2062 limits to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-ohio-dem-loves-taking-big-oils-money-now-she-needs-a-high-gas-price-scapegoat\/\" title=\"This Ohio Dem Loves Taking Big Oil\u2019s Money. Now She Needs a High Gas Price Scapegoat.\">avoid political backlash<\/a> and improve access to care for transgender youth. The emails\u2064 were revealed in court filings by \u2063psychologist Dr. James Cantor, supporting a\u200b 2022 Alabama law that bans transgender treatment for \u200dminors.\u200b The\u2062 final WPATH document apparently adheres to the administration&#8217;s desires but publicly omits this political influence. The piece\u200c implies \u200da \u200dstark contradiction between public \u2063and private\u2064 discussions within WPATH, \u200ddrawing parallels\u2062 with \u200cother incidents\u2063 of alleged governmental overreach. The article is critical of the administration&#8217;s actions, viewing\u2064 them as\u2063 politically motivated rather than focused on medical\u200b ethics and the \u200cwell-being \u2063of minors.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/jsaunders\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/jsaunders\/%20\"><span>Joe Saunders<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 26, 2024 at 9:01am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Normal people understand that it\u2019s a bad idea to let children make decisions that can only be understood by adults.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a minimum age for drinking. There\u2019s a minimum age for driver\u2019s licenses.<\/p>\n<p>But for Joe Biden\u2019s administration, medical professionals establishing a minimum age for girls to have surgery to remove her still-developing breasts or a healthy uterus is just too political.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the message from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/25\/health\/transgender-minors-surgeries.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k0.SYWv.3NbcZFyHXZLz&#038;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> report Tuesday on emails that showed the Biden administration\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to get rid of age restrictions on life-changing surgery in its latest guidelines on treating sexually confused teenagers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden Officials Pushed to Remove Age Limits for Trans Surgery<\/p>\n<p>Emails show that Biden\u2019s administration lobbied to remove age minimums for surgery in \u201cminors\u201d because of \u201cconcerns over political fallout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d rather abuse &#038; destroy children\u2019s lives than lose a single woke vote <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zIZIEL2AcU\">pic.twitter.com\/zIZIEL2AcU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Hookem (@PaulHook_em) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulHook_em\/status\/1805971780260995133?\">June 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2021, the Times reported, the organization known as WPATH (which is already <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/news\/leaked-files-reveal-wpaths-awareness-of-debilitating-potentially-fatal-effects-of-trans-procedures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stained with credibility problems<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fda-to-remove-restriction-on-blood-donations-from-gay-bisexual-men\/\" title=\"FDA To Remove Restriction On Blood Donations From Gay, Bisexual Men\">released draft guidelines<\/a> on transgender surgical procedures that would have set age limits for patients at \u201c14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But apparently, even declaring that teenage girls need to be at least 15 years old before deciding to have their breasts removed, or that boys and girls at least reach the age of legal adulthood before having their genitals surgically tampered with, was too much for HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, a man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/2-gop-representatives-censored-telling-truth-rachel-levine-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lives as a woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Should Rachel Levine be fired?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The emails are part of court filings submitted by Dr. James Cantor, a psychologist and outspoken critic of transgender surgery on children, according to the Times. They were filed in support of a 2022 law signed by Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey that bans transgender treatment for minors that is being challenged by \u201ccivil rights groups including the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-challenges-alabama-law-criminalizes-medically-necessary-care-transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden Justice Department<\/a> is also challenging the law.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Times, one email from a member of WPATH guidelines board stated that Levine \u2014 the Biden administration\u2019s \u201ctop point person on transgender issues,\u201d as the Times put it \u2014 \u201cwas very concerned that having ages (mainly for surgery) will affect access to care for trans youth and maybe adults, too. Apparently the situation in the U.S.A. is terrible and she and the Biden administration worried that having ages in the document will make matters worse. She asked us to remove them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Right. The \u201csituation in the U.S.A. is terrible\u201d because a representative government operates based on the will of the people. And the will of the people in the United States \u2014 the sane ones, anyway \u2014 is very much divided over the wisdom of letting children mutilate their bodies on the basis of teenage hormones or the fads of social media trends.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by the emails, some WPATH members didn\u2019t like the political involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our concern is with legislation (which I don\u2019t think it should be \u2014 we should be basing this on science and expert consensus if we\u2019re being ethical) wouldn\u2019t including the ages be helpful?\u201d one wrote, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need someone to explain to me how taking out the ages will help in the fight against the conservative anti-trans agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t clear if that explanation ever came (though \u201cif we\u2019re being ethical\u201d sounds almost quaint under the circumstances).<\/p>\n<p>What is clear is that the finalized document that makes up WPATH\u2019s most recent version of its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpath.org\/soc8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">standards of care<\/a>\u201d bowed to the Biden administration\u2019s desires.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpath.org\/media\/cms\/Documents\/SOC%20v8\/SOC-8%20FAQs%20-%20WEBSITE2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frequently asked questions<\/a>\u201d document WPATH has published doesn\u2019t make any mention of the Biden administration, its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-administration-releases-pro-transgender-propaganda-piece-rachel-levine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top point person<\/a>\u201d or the \u201cterrible\u201d situation in the United States when it discusses the lack of ages in the standards for medical procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it resorts to medico-bureaucratic gobbledygook:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA previous version of the WPATH Standards included specific ages for medical procedures. Why were those ages removed in the SOC-8?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinimum ages for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-activists-rebrand-sex-changes-as-gender-affirming-medical-care-to-bully-state-officials-into-allowing-the-mutilation-of-children\/\" title=\"Liberal Activists Rebrand Sex Changes As \u2018Gender-Affirming Medical Care\u2019 To Bully State Officials Into Allowing The Mutilation Of Children\">providing gender-affirming medical care<\/a> were removed from the SOC-8 and replaced by strengthened criteria to help codify the framework that enables every TGD [\u2018trans and gender diverse\u2019] adolescent the opportunity to get their appropriate medical needs met at the appropriate time; these changes to the SOC-8 reflect the fact that one-size-fits-all health care models, especially transgender care, are not accurate or appropriate for every individual person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In light of the emails reported by the Times, that \u201cexplanation\u201d \u2014 omitting the crucial role of the Biden Department of Health and Human Services in shaping a document with obvious political implications \u2014 comes across as a snowjob.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also eerily reflective of discussions about the origin of the COVID pandemic where health officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/deleted-gop-docs-reveal-exact-moment-experts-suspected-covid-lab-leak-instead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly disparaged<\/a> the idea that the coronavirus was leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology while privately conceding the possibility.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s reminiscent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cdc-coordinated-teachers-unions-allowed-line-line-edits-covid-guidelines-shocking-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hidden role played<\/a> by the American Federation of Teachers in formulating federal Centers for Disease Control guidelines on reopening (or not reopening) schools during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Those were bad. But playing games like this when it comes to the sexual mutilation of boys and girls too young to even know what their sexuality is is worse.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when the whole concept of \u201ctransgenderism\u201d is just getting study for long-term results, and evidence is growing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/german-study-vast-majority-people-will-grow-transgenderism-within-5-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">individuals will grow out<\/a> of the destructive state of confusion, a development like this is sickening.<\/p>\n<p>A Times quote from Cantor, the psychologist who submitted the filings with the emails, put it best:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s being told to the public is totally different from WPATH\u2019s discussions in private,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a damning statement, but when it comes to the Biden administration, normal people have known that for more than three years now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. Flynn\u2019s warning means that the 2024 election is the most important election for every single living American. If we lose this one to the wealthy elites who hate us, hate God, and hate what America stands for, we can only assume that 248 years of American history and the values we hold dear to our hearts may soon vanish.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The end game is here, and as Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>All of this means that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, it\u2019s over. 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Will you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>join us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  in the fight? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44712\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/jsaunders\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44712\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44712\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44712\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44712\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro desk editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He&#8217;s been with Liftable Media since 2015.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He&#8217;s been with Liftable Media since 2015. Largely a product of Catholic schools, who discovered Ayn Rand in college, Joe is a lifelong newspaperman who learned enough about the trade to be skeptical of every word ever written. He was also lucky enough to have a job that didn&#8217;t need a printing press to do it. <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Philadelphia <\/p>\n<p>  Nationality <\/p>\n<p>  American <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by Joe Saunders, June 26, 2024: Common sense dictates that children shouldn&#8217;t make adult decisions. There are age restrictions on drinking and driving for a reason. 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