We’ve been told that anyone who says a cross thing about transgenderism, and especially doubts about “gender-affirming care” for minors, is a hater and a bigot. I guess that includes the Biden Administration as of today. From the New York Times:
Biden Administration Opposes Surgery for Transgender Minors
The Biden administration said this week that it opposed gender-affirming surgery for minors, the most explicit statement to date on the subject from a president who has been a staunch supporter of transgender rights.
The White House announcement was sent to The New York Times on Wednesday in response to an article reporting that staff in the office of Adm. Rachel Levine, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, had urged an influential international transgender health organization to remove age minimums for surgery from its treatment guidelines for minors.
The draft guidelines would have lowered the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies. The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether. . .
The Biden administration’s previous statements on gender-affirming care for minors have not in the past explicitly opposed surgery. . .
The Times story goes out of its way to minimize the whole issue, saying that surgery on minors is “rare.” But it misses the real story here: someone in the Biden White House decided that the administration’s most high profile transgender person needed to be publicly repudiated. This issue must be polling very badly for Democrats.
What a way for the Biden team to close out Pride Month.
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