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'There is no argument': Rachel Levine praises 'gender-affirming care' for adolescents
CBS Austin ^ | 04/29/2022 | Alec Schemmel

Posted on 04/29/2022 1:07:34 PM PDT by thegagline

Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, said in an interview with NPR that “there is no argument” among pediatricians and adolescent-specialist doctors regarding “the value and the importance of gender-affirming care.”

“Gender-affirming care” includes sex reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers, hormone therapy and social affirmation, according to an FAQ from Levine’s own agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Levine’s comments dismissing concerns over “gender-affirming care” came during an interview with NPR ahead of her appearance at a health conference in Texas, a state that has taken measures to declare “gender-affirming” medical treatments for youth as “child abuse” under state law.

“One of the biggest messages I have at this time is really to speak about the challenges that the LGBTQI+ community face, particularly youth,” Levine told NPR. “The challenges come from very disturbing – and frankly discriminatory – laws and actions that many states are taking that are potentially dangerous, and costing the lives of young people.”

Levine also commented on recently published state guidance from Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, which was released in response to the HHS FAQ describing and supporting “gender-affirming care.”

Ladapo’s guidance declared that “social gender transition,” prescribed puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender reassignment surgery should not be treatment options for transgender individuals under 18 years old due to a lack of evidence and potentially irreversible effects.

“There is no argument among medical professionals – pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine physicians, adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, etc. – about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care,” Levine told NPR.

“I will disagree that there are many studies cited in the Florida statement – there are a few studies. I've looked at them. A lot of them say that we need more research. We agree,” Levine noted. “When you look at the forthcoming World Professional Association for Transgender Health standards of care and you see the hundreds and hundreds of articles, you will be able to see the difference between the research base for the standards of care and the few studies cited by Florida.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; groomers; homofascism; manoftheyear; pedophilescum; transgender
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Rachel Levine really needs some serious help. “ It’s sick out there and getting sicker.” Bob Grant
1 posted on 04/29/2022 1:07:34 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

That freak show fag is full of Shiite. They can claim anything they want, all day long, but that doesn’t make their important sounding declarations valid or rational.

These lowlifes need the good old fashioned Tar and Feathers, IMO.


2 posted on 04/29/2022 1:09:54 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: thegagline

“No argument” against weirdos, immorality, perversion, grooming, pedos, and irreparable harm to kids not old enough to tie their own shoelaces? Sure. No argument at all.


3 posted on 04/29/2022 1:10:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Instead of criminalizing guns, we need to criminalize criminals.)
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To: thegagline

Lol. Uber disinformation.


4 posted on 04/29/2022 1:12:33 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: thegagline

There is no argument.

The first four words sum up the liberal view on this. We are told there is no debate or discussion to be had about these hormone shots and puberty blockers. In the liberal mind, there is no debate because it’s so obvious we should be giving hormonal treatments to children and adolescents.

And they twist the language. What’s with this terminology “gender affirming care”????

Wouldn’t it be “gender affirming”, to administer therapy, not drugs, to a male who for whatever reason indicates that he does not identify as such? Ditto for a biological female who identifies as a male. Wouldn’t it affirm their gender to help them understand that they are a biological male, or female, as the case may be?


5 posted on 04/29/2022 1:13:20 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: thegagline

Only Child Molesters seek to sexualize your children.


6 posted on 04/29/2022 1:13:56 PM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: thegagline

It’s ethically wrong to indulge delusions and medical malpractice to surgically alter minors.


7 posted on 04/29/2022 1:14:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: thegagline

They have destroyed the language, themselves, the argument, society, morality......rabid leftists destroy everything they touch.


8 posted on 04/29/2022 1:16:38 PM PDT by Fungi
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Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender mentally ill federal official to be confirmed by the Senate...
9 posted on 04/29/2022 1:17:11 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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“There is no argument among medical professionals – pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine physicians, adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, etc. – about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care,” Levine told NPR.

Just because there was something that nature put there and then you unnaturally cut it off because you refuse to acknowledge that it's there, doesn't mean it wasn't there in the first place. That goes with arguments and... um... other things.

Some day this reign of transvestite terror will end. Unfortunately, it's as likely to end because the society that put up with it also comes to an end as it is that the society that put up with it will realize that there is no reason to put up with it.

10 posted on 04/29/2022 1:18:48 PM PDT by jz638
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“Gender-affirming care” includes sex reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers, hormone therapy and social affirmation, according to an FAQ from Levine’s own agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

No, that is "Gender-denying care".

11 posted on 04/29/2022 1:20:29 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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To: thegagline

Womens healthcare = murdering unborn babies

Gender affirming care = cutting off little boys penises


12 posted on 04/29/2022 1:20:29 PM PDT by Pxzftrnqfrn
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Not even Dr. Kevorkian killed as many people as Richard Tricky Dick Levine did as Pennsylvania top doc when he forced nursing homes to accept covid patients ... after taking his mother out of one first of course.


13 posted on 04/29/2022 1:20:47 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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This transgender bull obama needs hard pushback, because there is a huge portion of the voting population who are so suggestible that they will believe it. They need to hear a chorus of voices in favor of sanity.


14 posted on 04/29/2022 1:21:23 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Pox

Wonder if “their” kids are proud of “them”. Raised in that environment, probably. Sad.


15 posted on 04/29/2022 1:23:59 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: thegagline

“The science is settled”. Just like climate change. They’re following the exact same narrative. I don’t use this term often, but this really is just evil.


16 posted on 04/29/2022 1:25:38 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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Predator


17 posted on 04/29/2022 1:26:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: thegagline

Abigail Shrier puts the lie to the child-maiming gender cult in her book “Irreversible Damage”

Her remarks on the issue are worth the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWbxIFC0Q2o


18 posted on 04/29/2022 1:28:02 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: thegagline

The she/he/it (sounds best slurred)is mentally ill.

IrishBrigade posted this tribute a couple of years ago:

while a young kid Richie could then see
his dickie would cause him great frenzy
so he took a huge axe
gave his penis some whacks
and became a grim bigwig in Pennsy..

To which I added:

When Richie prepared to “transition”
He could find no willing Physician
So at E.R. lav
D.I.Y. to have
He proceeded to make his incision.


19 posted on 04/29/2022 1:33:49 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: jz638

“Some day this reign of transvestite terror will end.”

From your lips to Gods ears…


20 posted on 04/29/2022 1:34:15 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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