Posted on 02/25/2021 11:58:57 AM PST by RandFan
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is facing criticism for his questioning of one of President Biden’s health nominees, Rachel Levine, a former state health official who would be the first openly transgender federal official confirmed by the Senate.
Paul characterized gender-affirming care, including surgical treatments for transgender individuals, as “genital mutilation,” a description not supported by mainstream health care experts.
“It is really critical to me that our nominees be treated with respect and that our questions focus on their qualifications and the work ahead of us, rather than ideological and harmful misrepresentations like those we heard from Senator Paul earlier,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the chairwoman of the Senate Health Committee, which considered Levine’s nomination Thursday.
Levine was nominated to be the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, a role that primarily oversees the agency's public health initiatives.
Levine, a pediatrician, previously served as the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health. While other senators questioned Levine on public health issues, including mental health and COVID-19, Paul focused on the treatment of transgender youth.
Paul specifically said Levine supports surgeries for transgender children, a misleading claim that has surfaced in conservative media and social media in recent days.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health says genital surgery should not be carried out until patients reach adulthood. In 2015, Levine said during a public event that surgical treatment is not recommended before age 18. In 2017, she said there are "some procedures" that might be done before 18.
“Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed,” Levine said to Paul, though she didn't specifically answer his question.
If she is confirmed, she added, she would be happy to discuss the standard of care for transgender individuals and minors.
Paul also criticized the use of reversible puberty blockers, which can be used for adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria as a way to give them time before making more permanent decisions, like surgery, in adulthood.
Research has shown puberty blockers, which are reversible, can reduce suicidal thoughts in transgender adolescence.
"Rand Paul chose devotion to anti-LGBTQ extremist groups over substance and the health of our nation — and does not deserve to hold public office,” said Ruben Gonzales, executive director of the LGBTQ Victory Institute.
“His remarks echo the talking points of the same organizations who said gay men deserved AIDS and that LGBTQ people should be criminalized. He explicitly attacked vulnerable trans youth for his own perceived political gain and it was a disgrace. Dr. Levine is an extremely qualified nominee whose experience can help America effectively tackle this pandemic, but he took this opportunity to give voice to hate groups instead."
They call it “personal choice.” The same word used to described infanticide.
Should we take this that the Dems are now openly and fully in support of clear-cut child abuse? Well over 90% of kids with gender dysphoria grow out of it, but the Dems want to chop up their genitalia and breasts, make them infertile, permanently alter their bodies with hormones, and push them permanently into a group with sky-high suicide rates. In no rational, moral world is this not child abuse.
Let’s discuss the missing covid records for 25% of the nursing homes in PA. It had direct accountability for that. The nomination needs to be put on hold until this is resolved.
Believe the science.
There are TWO sexes. Male and female.
Rachel Levine pulled his mom out of a nursing home and put her up in a hotel room while Tommie the Commie was forcing Covid patients into Nursing homes....just like Killer Cuomo.
He’s ugly inside and out.
THIS COUNTRY IS A FREAK SHOW!
This what it looks like with Obama destroying America!! OMG how in the hell could the people have forgotten what a LOSER O was!! Although WE KNOW he wasn’t voted in!!!
If this country is not judged.....
Do people understand that transgender-ism is considered a cure for homosexuality in many Muslim countries?
“...pointed out that not only does the Emperor have no clothes...”
Some French King back in the 1600’s or so believed he was made of glass. To go anywhere his servants would pack him in straw in a box as one would a fine glass vase.
This became a thing with others as well, sort of a mass hysteria, and went on for a couple hundred years iirc. People thinking they were made of glass! (I have no idea, but I wonder if this is where the “Emperor has no clothes” thing came from???
I see the same thing at work in the transgenders. Girls wanting to be boys is up something like 1400% (yes - percent!). Boys to girls is up something like 100% (doubled) in the last ten years.
” mainstream health care experts”....really? Being a medical doctor, I’d say Senator Paul is an actual expert.
Another version of “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.”
Once it gets the job, then the ugly details will be revealed.
Speaking of ugly . . .
Another “cock and balls” story!
Did Cornyn say he would vote for confirmation since this is as good as it will get?
Another “cock and balls” story!
LOL.
“Paul characterized gender-affirming care, including surgical treatments for transgender individuals, as “genital mutilation,” a description not supported by mainstream health care experts.”
Uh, he’s a physician.
““Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed,” Levine said to Paul”
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This is precisely why minors should not be allowed to make decisions about their sexuality that will live with them for the rest of their lives. This is what Senator Rand Paul was grilling Levine about and HE refused to answer.
The Emperor’s New Clothes is based on a Spanish book of tales from 1335 that was translated into German and read by Hans Christian Anderson but there is an Indian version of the story that is even older than that.
Levine, the nominee, is a guy.
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