Posted on 07/20/2023 9:48:02 PM PDT by Morgana
Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine has claimed children can go through 'the wrong puberty.'
Levine, 65, endorsed providing gender-affirming care to minors, arguing that the treatment options are 'evidence-based.'
'The treatment options for gender-affirming care for transgender youth really are evidence-based,' Levine said.
She had been asked about the possibility of keeping transgender youth from seeking body-altering treatment until at least the age of 18.
Levine has previously said so-called gender-affirming care for minors has the 'highest support' from the Biden administration.
Levine is the highest ranking openly transgender federal official in the country and was made a four-star admiral of the public health service.
She tends to sport her admiral's uniform during public appearances. Levine, who grew up male, underwent puberty as a man, attended medical school, got married and became a father before deciding to transition.
Levine's support for gender-affirming care for minors would, in some cases, take away opportunities that Levine had living as a man for decades before transitioning, her critics have pointed out.
The ABC host asked Levine: 'What would you say to people who think they're being reasonable by saying 'why can't children just wait until they're 18?'
'Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard. What if you're going through the wrong puberty? What if you inside feel that you are female, but now you're going through a male puberty?' responded Levine.
The assistant secretary followed up by proclaiming that 'gender-affirming care is medical care.'
'Gender-affirming care is mental health care. Gender-affirming care is literally suicide prevention.
'A supportive adult can make all the difference. Now one might hope that might be a parent or a relative. Sometimes it's a teacher or a coach or a religious adviser or someone else in their life.'
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I remember when Reagan called the USSR the "evil empire." He was correct at the time.
But my, how times have changed.
Rachel Levine is a LIAR.
It is not evidenced-based; it is the opposite.
Kids who suffer from GD due to an endocrine issue usually pass the dysphoria stage after they become adults and puberty ends. Only those who are still battling dysphoria in their 20s are incurable.
At that point, they are adults and can make their own decisions.
You are mistaken.
For a small segment of the population, it is an endocrine issue (sometimes curable, sometimes not) or a genetic disorder.
The number of actual trans people is a tiny percentage of the population. The number of pretenders/fakers/confused is ridiculously high.
My child is in the first category; incurable endocrine disorder. She scored in the top 1% of the STAAR exams.
Exactly right.
Deluded and evil.
Here is a great short vid that discusses and well explains why this mania will be so hard to stop.
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1681878080040628229
This pervert should NEVER be allowed around children, supervised or not.
There is NO, zero, zilch, nada, evidence that “gender-affirming” treatment in any way, shape, form, manner or fashion, reduces in the least the probability that the child will be either more or less likely to commit suicide, depending on whether or not the “affirmation” is carried out. That is simply not quantifiable.
Left to their own devices, or with some REAL psychological therapy, and not just mumbo-jumbo pseudoscientific babble, virtually all children will eventually outgrow this urge to physically transform their bodies to conform to some fruit-loops medical practitioner’s idea of what is “right”.
Once undertaken, the physical transformation leaves the victim mutilated, sterile, and with a lifetime dependency on specialized medical treatment, rendering them an unusual burden on family and society for the duration of their lives, for very little gain in productivity or satisfaction, if any at all.
The only “transgender” change possible is to change a biological male into a neuter, or a biological female into a neuter. It is beyond the capability of medical intervention today to make a full transition of male into female, or female into male. It may NEVER be possible, as it would mean altering just about every one of the billions of somatic cells that make up the human body so that XX becomes XY, or XY becomes XX.
Neva happen, GI.
If people can be talked into adopting this as “normal”, they could be talked into anything, no matter how bizarre, as they shall have by then totally voided their own capacity for judgment.
Rachael “Dick” Levine... Richard is “it’s” real first name, is on sick freak.
Anyone thinking of taking health advice from this unknown spieces should seek psychiatric advice immediately.
Has any reporter asked Levine why European countries have stopped treating minor children with hormones, puberty blockers and surgery? That they treat their psychological care first? And they say USA has maltreatment of transgender-identifying kids?
Bingo!
He cut his own penis off. What stable person does that?
The real shame is he didn’t use a dull, rusty knife.
EC
Richard is delusional. I feel sympathy for his wife and kids.
Gender-affirming care should mean treatment that helps kids be comfortable in the bodies they’re born with, whether it’s psychological counseling or medication to correct hormonal or brain chemistry issues, or both. Going the surgical route is like discovering that your car is running rough because some diesel fuel got mixed in and deciding to pull the engine and modify it to run on diesel rather than simply flushing the diesel and putting the proper fuel in the tank.
“Richard is delusional. I feel sympathy for his wife and kids.”
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Don’t feel too much sympathy, those twisted family members are more than likely, all in on his sickness.
Believe it or not, I worked in the same building and crossed paths w this very messed up, sick individual.
Couldn’t believe what I was seeing, as he walked through the halls.
Just disturbing!
We should put Admiral Levine in command of the USNS Harvey Milk and then sink it
Maybe I should have said, its word.
‘evidence-based” is a code for “shut up and do what I say”
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