A GOP Senator Just Compared Trans Health Care to ‘Genital Mutilation’ (Rand Paul)

Vice ^ | February 25th, 2021 | by Carter Sherman

[Mariner]

She’s set to be the highest-profile trans government official in U.S. history. So Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul used Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine to falsely compare gender-affirming health care to genital mutilation.

“Most genital mutilation is not typically performed by force but, as WHO notes, that by social convention, social norm, the social pressure to conform, to do what others do and have been doing as well as the need to be accepted socially and the fear of being rejected by the community,” Paul told Levine, a Pennsylvania pediatrician and health official who’s nominated to become President Joe Biden’s assistant health secretary.

“American culture is now normalizing the idea that minors could 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?”

[Mariner]

There are some brave souls on the right that are not raving idiots.

[Paladin2]

Dr. Rachel Levine needs to report to the nearest Mosque to run the mutilation programs.

[cdcdawg]

Rand Paul really did compare mutilation of the genitals to genital mutilation. Really. They can’t really refute what he said, so all they do is point, sputter, Just Wow, and Current Year.

[Lurkinanloomin]

That is in fact what it is, my hat is off to Rand Paul for saying it.

It’s a mental illness that no amount of surgery will help, it will only do permanent harm.

[Kozak]

He’s a physician.
And he’s correct.

[Lurker]

The nominee cut his own penis off.

L

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep.

[martin_fierro]

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[Aria]

So Transhealth is the name for cutting off your sex parts and Woman’s Health is the name for murdering a child you created.

Maybe Hetrohealth could be the name for locking up these perverts and murderers.

[old curmudgeon]

I can not believe that “it” is or was a practicing pediatrician.

If so, PA has more problems than fraudulent voting.

[escapefromboston]

Dems believe these crazy conspiracy theories that men with long hair and a dress are actually females.

[SuperLuminal]

Mental mutilation?
Psychological mutilation?

[lightman]

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

[Skywise]

And he’s right.

Whacking off perfectly good body part is not and has never been “health care” by any stretch of the definition.

[lightman]

Dr. RICHARD....

No matter how many parts HE cut off,
No matter how many estrogen injections HE receives,
No matter how much bad hair HE teases and curls...

HE will ALWAYS have that pesky Y chromosome.

[pnut22]

Under what other circumstance is it medically approved to destroy a fully functional part of the human body? Can one identify as a parapalegic and have limbs removed? Would any one in the medical profession approve?

[lightman]

Now THAT is some coding!

[yoe]

Whatever is happening to this country’s Cultural Suicide, it happening really fast.

[lightman]

Under what other circumstance is it medically approved to destroy a fully functional part of the human body?

Sharia enthusiasts can offer some answers.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I got 30 days in FB jail for mentioning that there was no difference between Norman Bates(Psycho), Ed Gein (a real psycho) and a tranny butchering themselves to become a “woman”.

http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm

UDITH: I do feel, Reg, that any Anti-Imperialist group like ours must reflect such a divergence of interests within its power-base.

REG: Agreed. Francis?

FRANCIS: Yeah. I think Judith’s point of view is very valid, Reg, provided the Movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every man—

STAN: Or woman.

FRANCIS: Or woman... to rid himself—

STAN: Or herself.

FRANCIS: Or herself.

REG: Agreed.

FRANCIS: Thank you, brother.

STAN: Or sister.

FRANCIS: Or sister. Where was I?

REG: I think you’d finished.

FRANCIS: Oh. Right.

REG: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man—

STAN: Or woman.

REG: Why don’t you shut up about women, Stan. You’re putting us off.

STAN: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.

FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?

STAN: I want to be one.

REG: What?

STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.

REG: What?!

LORETTA: It’s my right as a man.

JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?

LORETTA: I want to have babies.

REG: You want to have babies?!

LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.

REG: But... you can’t have babies.

LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.

REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!

LORETTA: crying

JUDITH: Here! I— I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.

FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.

REG: What’s the point?

FRANCIS: What?

REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!

FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.

REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.