Posted on 07/18/2022 8:56:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
They say conservatives are jumping at bogeymen. They act like there is absolutely no effort to influence your children, especially behind your back. But sometimes they make it so obvious one wonders why they even bother denying it.
The much-celebrated Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, said young people must be empowered to receive “gender affirmation treatment.” During an appearance on MSNBC, Levine said youths dealing with gender dysphoria experience mental health issues, bullying, and political attacks and that we should focus on giving them gender-affirming care. This is a fancy way of saying these children should be influenced to transition to another gender.
“So we really want to base our treatment and to affirm and to support and empower these youth not to limit their participation in activities in sports and even limit their ability to get gender affirmation treatment in their state,” Levine told host Andrea Mitchell.
Levine’s comments come a month after President Joe Biden signed an executive order expanding access to transgender treatments for minors. His administration claims there is no debate or controversy in the medical community about whether it is appropriate to encourage young children to transition.
The “gender affirmation treatments” to which Levine referred include socially transitioning to the opposite sex, hormones, puberty blockers, and even life-altering surgeries – many of which cannot be fully reversed.
“Trans youth are vulnerable. They suffer significant harassment and bullying, sometimes in schools or their community,” Levine said. “They have more mental health issues, but there’s nothing inherent with being transgender or gender diverse, which would predispose youth to depression or anxiety. It’s the harassment and bullying.”
There has been some pushback against the Biden administration’s effort to push transgender ideology among children. A federal judge recently blocked a directive that would allow transgender workers and students to use restrooms that match their chosen gender identities. The order also forced schools to allow biological boys to compete in girls’ sports.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) introduced legislation allowing adults to file lawsuits against doctors who performed gender transition treatment on them up to 30 years after they turn 18 years old. “Under the Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act, patients or their legal guardians would be able to seek declaratory or injunctive relief against such practitioners, as well as compensatory damages and attorneys’ fees. The provisions would apply only to procedures performed after the bill becomes law,” according to Fox News.
The bill, if passed, would also prevent the federal government from compelling doctors to perform such treatments on minors and would also stop federal funding from going to states that do the same. The legislation would also define biological sex as “the genetic classification of an individual as male or female, as reflected in the organization of the body of such individual for a reproductive role or capacity, such as through sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, and internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to the subjective sense of identity of the individual.”
The motivation behind Levine’s comments is the same behind efforts on the part of school districts to push gender ideology in K-12 classrooms in public schools. Not only are teachers providing instruction to young children on these matters, they are also encouraging – and helping – students transition to the opposite gender. In many cases, they are doing this without the parents’ knowledge or consent. It is an insidious effort to make younger folks desensitized to transgenderism and other far-leftist ideas on gender and sexuality.
This fight continues to rage as Democrats double down on pushing their LGBTQ agenda in schools. Meanwhile, they are also doing their best to limit educational choices for parents who do not want their kids subject to these teachings. The Biden administration has already tried to attack charter schools and progressives are doing their best to discredit other areas of school choice. So far, their efforts do not seem to be working. Public school attendance continues to drop while more parents are putting their kids in private schools or homeschooling. It will be quite difficult for Democrats to conceal their motives when folks like Levine are saying the quiet part out loud.
That man is dangerous and predatory. In any normal administrationm he never would have gotten in, coming to work, as it were, in drag, then expecting everyone else to politely play along with the fantasy.
just looking at this freak makes me wanna puke
PURE EVIL!
Video here
Levine: We need to “empower” kids to go on puberty blockers and get sex reassignment surgery
https://rumble.com/v1cr5fh-levine-we-need-to-empower-kids-to-go-on-puberty-blockers-and-get-sex-reassi.html
Demon possession.
Days of Lot
Another nauseating affectation that lays the ground fertile for leftism to thrive. Ps me o.
70 years ago, Richard Levine would have been locked up in a mental ward, and never ever given access to children.
Some things were done better in those days.
“Rachel” Levine is a Satan-inspired degenerate. He needs the millstone treatment.
“gender affirmation treatment.”
Why can’t satanic leftists just call it what it is: sexual mutilation. Because like the devil, they must twist the truth whenever they see it.
just another groomer
but this one is blessed by the dems
and in a position to set up a lot of kids to be molested
Zee verd “gr00mer” is banned!
As the mother of a trans child, I am calling GRADE A LEVEL PHD HORSESH!T that trans kids only suffer depression from bullying.
Trans kids have an endocrine issue; the same system that regulates sexual development also regulates the brain’s chemistry. Women with severe post-partum that lose their minds and kill their kids have an endocrine deficit. Trans kids over-produce hormones with equally horrible results.
This stupid creature is supposed to be a doctor? That is a JOKE! I spent years learning about what was happening to my child so I could try to save her. Too late, incurable, a genetic defect from birth. Then I spent more time trying to figure out how to help her deal with all the crazy changes happening to her body, as she was masculinizing naturally.
I am so sick of these freaks trying to brainwash kids. My child’s condition is RARE and hellish and painful. There is not a trans kid behind every blade of grass.
Enough already! Life is incredibly hard for someone with my child’s condition and these monsters are making it worse, not better.
Libtards love screwing up people’s kids so they’ll end up like this freak 🤪
and quite the looker
Makes you wonder why the left embrace Islam.
There is no trans, one is born male or female. Mutilating the genitils does not change the chromosome basis for male and female.
Kill it!
It's a fair question as Levine makes no real effort to look at all like a woman, but rather simply a man who likes to crossdress.
And kids with body dysmorphia in the form of anorexia I’m guessing this “expert” thinks they should be put on a diet and liposuction.
And some rare cases of body dysmorphia where the people think that a body part (usually a leg or an arm) is a foreign object and needs to be removed. (A doctor in England was able to remove an arm from two patients before he was stopped!)
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