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By Post Editorial Board

March 17, 2023 | 7:32pm

Assistant Secretary of Overall health Rachel Levine mentioned young children hoping to get gender-affirming surgery “have help at the highest levels of the federal government.”
through REUTERS

The fanatical gender extremism of Group Biden in no way ends.

The most up-to-date outburst: Assistant Secretary of Overall health Rachel Levine’s announcement at a Connecticut children’s hospital that practices “gender affirming” pediatric care — i.e. cross-sex hormones and even surgeries — that these procedures have “support at the highest levels of the federal government.“

“President Biden supports you. I as the Assistant Secretary for Overall health will help you,” mentioned Levine (who is herself transgender). 

Parents, science and feasible regrets be damned: Get these youngsters on drugs and the operating table! 

Don’t forget, Levine’s remarks come amid a worldwide trend of developing, justified skepticism about the worth of such therapies for youngsters. 

Sweden, Finland and Britain have moved sharply away from them. Right here in the US, Florida and seven other states have banned them outright, and 23 additional are taking comparable actions.  

Levine mentioned that Joe Biden supports young children searching for gender-affirming surgery. AP

No additional than the actual proof demands. These therapies bring with them main dangers and permanent life-altering side effects, like loss of bone density, sterility and sexual dysfunction. 

And that is to say practically nothing of detransition — i.e. when a transitioner decides they produced the incorrect decision and can face a lifetime of healthcare hardship to go back. 

There’s zero fantastic proof suggesting that surgeries or hormones make any distinction to the psychological properly-becoming of minors, regardless of wild claims that such therapies stand involving youngsters who really feel out of spot in their bodies and suicide. 

Certainly, Levine herself mentioned in 2019 that she was pleased she waited till adulthood — in her case, 54 — to transition: “If I had transitioned when I was younger then I wouldn’t have my young children. I cannot picture a life with no my young children.” 

She understands all the dangers right here. (Not shocking she’s an MD.) But for the young children of other individuals? Hormones ahead of puberty hits and surgery.

What’s driving her gender extremism — and that of her boss — is unclear.

In Biden’s case, it is most likely woke pandering. Levine, meanwhile, has been caught on e mail discussing pediatric gender care as an financial proposition for a former employer. 

But what ever the motive, it has practically nothing to do with science. Or the greatest interests of confused youngsters. 

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