WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Biden’s transgender Assistant Health Secretary Richard “Rachel” Levine claims Americans must “empower” children to undergo “gender-affirmation” interventions, which typically include puberty blockers and “sex change” surgery.
On Monday, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Levine responded to pushback against Biden administration policies that would allow males who identify as female to compete on female athletic teams and that promote irreversible “gender transitioning” of children.
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“And so, we really want to base our treatment and affirm and to support and empower these youth, not to limit their participation activities in sports and even limit their ability to get gender-affirmation treatment in their state,” he stated.
Levine, himself a gender-confused individual who believes he is a woman, was reacting to laws banning gender-confused boys from girls’ sports.
Studies have repeatedly shown that gender-confused males massively outperform women in athletic competitions, regardless of attempts at a feminized appearance. A recent study published in Sports Medicine found that a year of transgender hormone drugs results in “very modest changes” in the inherent strength advantages of men.
Republican have recently proposed several bills to protect children from irreversible gender transition operations and drugs. Dr. Quentin Van Meter, president of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), told LifeSiteNews that giving hormone blockers to children with gender dysphoria is a form of child abuse.
“I think the steps that have been proposed in terms of making this an offense and considering it to be medically unethical should be pressed to the max,” Van Meter said. “It should be looked at in terms of licensure of physicians who do this.”
No drugs have ever been approved for gender dysphoria or evaluated in long-term clinical studies with gender-confused minors. But dozens of gender clinics and major health systems have nevertheless ramped up prescriptions of puberty blockers to children in recent years to halt their natural puberty and affirm their so-called “transgender identities.”
Up to around 100 percent of boys and 90 percent of girls with gender dysphoria come to accept their biological sex as they reach adulthood, according to the American Psychiatric Association. Virtually all those started on puberty blockers, later take cross-sex hormones. These drugs sterilize users and typically lead to devastating transgender surgeries.
Puberty blocking drugs, like Supprelin LA and Lupron, are linked to serious, permanent side effects, such as osteoporosis, cognitive impairment, and sterility.