DHH Asst Secretary Sought Studies Favoring Gender Transitions for Minors

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Castration, genital mutilation, breast removal promoted by Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services…..

Levine – exemplar of everything wrong, unhealthy and mentally disturbed.

Rachel Levine sought studies favoring gender transitions for minors, email shows

By Abigail Adcox, Washington Examiner, November 22, 2022 12:47 PM

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A top Biden health official sought justification for gender transition surgeries for minors as Pennsylvania’s physician general and did not receive it at the time, according to newly released emails.

Dr. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services , requested research favoring allowing minors to undergo gender transition surgeries, such as double mastectomies, in 2017 from a doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The doctor said they were unaware of any such data, despite confirming that minors were receiving the surgeries at their hospital, according to emails obtained by Megan Brock through a Right-to-Know request and shared with the Washington Examiner.

“I know that we had discussed at US PATH the possibility of gender confirmation surgery for young people under 18 years of age,” Levine wrote in an email on May 4, 2017, to Dr. Nadia Dowshen, co-founder of the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “This could include top surgery for trans young men and top and bottom surgery for trans young women. Is there any literature to support this protocol?”

Levine, the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, has been a staunch advocate for “gender-affirming care,” such as gender transition surgeries or puberty blockers, and has argued that states should not limit minors’ access to such treatments. Levine was Pennsylvania’s physician general beginning in 2015 and later was named as secretary for Pennsylvania’s Department of Health in 2018.

In her response, Dowshen, who helps run the hospital’s clinic that “offers psychosocial and medical support for gender variant, gender expansive, and transgender children and youth up to age 21,” acknowledged that the surgeries were happening at the hospital but did not know of any research available in 2017.

“Hi Rachel, I’m not aware of existing literature but it is certainly happening. I think we’ve had more than 10 patients who have had chest surgery under 18 (as young as 15) and 1 bottom surgery (17),” Dowshen replied in an email to Levine on May 5, 2017.

That same year, Levine and Dowshen were both involved in efforts opposing a Pennsylvania state bill that would have prohibited Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program from covering transition-related services, including gender transition surgery, in the state. The bill was later rejected by the state legislature.

Levine has continued to be outspoken on transgender issues, including while going through Senate confirmation for assistant secretary of health. Last year, during a confirmation hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, grilled Levine over whether minors should have access to gender transition surgeries or puberty blockers, among other treatments.

“Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed,” Levine told Paul, without directly answering the question of whether minors are able to make decisions regarding such procedures.

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Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Levine needs to be stripped of his position and be sent to a mental institution. His brain is dysfunctional and has been for a long time.

Hennely
Hennely
1 year ago
Reply to  Snowedin

So when a little boy who wants to be a girl is getting castrated and his little man removed, where do these body parts end up ?? Perhaps for little girls who want to be little boys may have them stitched on to them. But, i suppose in a swap deal the boy will receive the little cut off boobs. Frankenstein institutions like that should be shut down immediately and the so called scientist institutionalized.
This evil behavior would be good script material for the next James Bond or Dracula movies.

Andre
Andre
1 year ago

No such this as a transgender human in the history of the world. Transgender medicine should not exist.

edD
ed
1 year ago

Dick(less) Levine, the rear-end “admiral”. Was he the sailor in The Village People ????

Major Tom
Major Tom
1 year ago

Methinks the agendas these evil people are pushing are the exact opposite of what God planned for the human race. They are absolutely 180 degrees off course…..

vinnynewyork
vinnynewyork
1 year ago

if he wasn’t so beautiful, I would be angry about the damage he’s willing to bring to young children.

edD
ed
1 year ago
Reply to  vinnynewyork

There’s not enough booze in the world, even at last call…..

VTSD
VTS
1 year ago

Assistant director of what department? Health?
Unbelievable!

davedutchess
davedutchess
1 year ago

If I knew the in’s and out’s of the Federal System; Levine would be dead already. She is a psychopath in the Federal system that needs to be “removed on a permanent basis………yesterday!

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