Assistant Secretary of Health Dr Rachel Levine, who is also a four-star admiral, said that the government must “empower” children to get trans surgeries, puberty blockers, and other “gender-affirmation treatment.”
Levine, the most prominent trans official in the current administration, argued that the government must “affirm,” “support” and “empower” transgender youth when it comes to transitioning in an interview with MSNBC.
The four-star admiral said that they don’t want to “limit their participation in activities and sports, and even eliminate their ability to get gender-affirmation treatment in their state,” as many Republican legislators at the state level are moving towards.
Biden Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine: We need to “empower” kids to go on puberty blockers and get sex reassignment surgery. pic.twitter.com/CRPRaFYtzK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 18, 2022
So-called “gender-affirmation treatment” for trans minors includes not only psychological therapy, but also puberty-blockers, hormone therapy, and surgical procedures, such as mastectomies and penectomies.
In a series of tweets, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most America First members of Congress, argued that they must do “everything we can to prevent Dr Dick Levine’s pre-teen #WeenieChop.”
Greene wondered whether Levine had been through sex transition surgery himself, or whether he is “just pushing this on children.”
Now that I think about it.
As Dr. Dick Levine advocates for “gender affirming care” for minors, has he undergone the #WeenieChop himself?
Or is he just pushing this on children?
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 18, 2022
Levine made similar comments during an online Pride Month town hall organised by the DNC last month, where they claimed that the “care” given to trans minors was “life-saving, medically necessary [and] age-appropriate,” arguing that “every major medical association agrees” with that fact.
Last month, the Florida Health Department, under Gov. Ron DeSantis, warned of the dangers of giving puberty blockers to kids and performing trans surgeries, arguing that despite the positive assertions from Levine, the evidence that actually supports such a conclusion is “extraordinarily weak.”
“The current standards set by numerous professional organizations appear to follow a preferred political ideology instead of the highest level of generally accepted medical science,” wrote Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, arguing that “children and adolescents… will continue to face a substantial risk of long-term harm” if they are given “gender-affirmation treatment.”
