During a Democratic video town hall for Pride Month, Admiral Rachel L. Levine, Assistant Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, declared that “gender affirming care is life-saving, medically necessary, age appropriate, and a critical tool.”
“The Biden-Harris administration has played a critical role in ensuring the LGBTQ community has a seat at the table. We can see it in the way they've advocated for trans and queer communities. The administration has rolled out gender neutral markers on passports, ensuring many trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people can get government identification that reflects their authentic identity,” Levine, a biological man, said shortly after being introduced last week.
Levine then slammed critics of the Biden administration’s promotion of transgender surgeries and medical treatments.
“They have stooped so low as to try to punish parents criminally for seeking gender affirming care for their children who need it. Every major medical association agrees gender affirming care is life saving, medically necessary, age appropriate, and a critical tool for health care providers.”
Earlier this year, Alabama passed a law making castration, puberty blockers and other gender reassignment surgeries for minors a felony (a court blocked part of the law in May).
The measure applies to “surgeries that sterilize, including castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, orchiectomy, and penectomy” as well as those “that artificially construct tissue with the appearance of genitalia that differs from the individual’s sex.”
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In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton released a formal opinion in February concluding that performing certain “sex-change” procedures on children, and prescribing puberty-blockers to them, is “child abuse” under Texas law.
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