Posted on 03/05/2021 1:47:14 PM PST by simpson96
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.,asked whether minors should be allowed to permanently change their genders Thursday, and Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., accused him of making "ideological and harmful misrepresentations."(snip)
Paul asked Dr. Rachel Levine, who is on track to become the first openly transgender nominee to be confirmed by the Senate, whether she believed minors should be allowed to decide for themselves to undergo permanent life-altering surgeries or hormone therapies.
"American culture is now normalizing the idea that minors can be given hormones to prevent their biological development of their secondary sexual characteristics," Paul said. "Dr. Levine, do you believe that minors are capable of making such a life-changing decision as changing one’s sex?"
"Senator, thank you for your interest in this question," replied Levine,(snip) "Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed," Levine said. "If I am fortunate enough to be confirmed as the assistant secretary of health, I will look forward to working with you and your office and coming to your office and discussing the particulars of the standards of care for transgender medicine."
Paul accused her of evading the question and asked again.
"What I am alarmed at is that you’re not willing to say, absolutely, minors shouldn’t be making decisions to amputate their breasts or to amputate their genitalia," he said. "I am alarmed that you won’t say, with certainty, that minors should not have the ability to make the decision to take hormones that will affect them for the rest of their life. Will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions?"
Levine replied to Rand’s follow-up with a nearly identical response as to his first question.
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She’s a moron.
If you ask me questions you’re harming children.
Okay ... it was unintended but this...
“ideological and harmful misrepresentations.”(snip)
The snip somewhat funny on account of what’s being talked about here.
Also, the idea that it is someone besides these gender/trans idiots who are pushing a harmful ideology is itself laughable.
All these medical mutilations should have remained illegal!
A repulsively ugly moron.
Seems to me gender confusion is a misrepresentation in itself.
He’s “misrepresenting” the facts that the trans movement wants to get to children and have them allowed to disfigure their bodies and take life-changing hormones, perhaps even without their parents’ approval or knowledge?
I think he’s telling it like it is. One of the few straight talkers in D.C.
The Left had a harmful ideology, the blind leading the blind.
Patty Murray is a dumb dwarf who is worth millions and cannot find the time to visit a dentist so her teeth look like the hinges if a rusty garden gate.
That is well known.
Levine must NOT be confirmed.
And Murray should be cancelled...er, voted out.
She is dumber than a hammer.
Yes, what you said. Like a boy, pretending to be a girl, isn’t some type of ideological and, arguably, harmful, misrepresentation!!
Patty Murray’s schtick as the “mom in tennis shoes” has worn out. She is an overpaid, ex-kindergarten teacher that makes policy for 330 million Americans.
Sick, sick, sick!
Is “Take away control parents have over their children, Turn children against their parents” one of the Alinskey rules?
Seems to me like Murray is engaging in micro-aggression. Take the Left’s fight to them...
“What can you tell me about depression and suicide among post-op transexuals?”
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