The Department of Health and Human Services transgendered assistant secretary Dr. Rachel Levine pushed the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to throw out the guidelines that would require age limits for sex change operations, according to an exhibit filed in the case of Boe v. Marshall.
The exhibit disclosed that Levine’s reasoning was unrelated to science or medicine. Instead, it was a political statement to advance LGBT, the Post Millennial reports. The assistant secretary did not want to put more regulations forth that would ban sex changes on minors.
WPATH President Dr. Marci Bowers denied the claims. Bowers, who is also transgendered, is the doctor who performed the sex change operation on Jazz Jennings, the reality TV star that climbed to fame after announcing at a young age of not feeling like a boy but a girl trapped in a boy’s body.
“It wasn’t political,” Bowers said, “the politics were already evident. WPATH doesn’t look at politics when making a decision.”
Researcher Dr. James Cantor pointed out that the internal communications of WPATH show Levine “strongly” pressuring the organization’s leadership to “rush the development and issuance of SOC-8 in order to assist with Administration political strategy.”
Levine has also stated that “trans kids” will be an “inspiration.”
“I have just spoken to Admiral Levine today, who—as always is extremely supportive of the SOC 8, but also very eager for its release—so to ensure integration in the US health policies of the Biden government,” the communications read. “So, let’s crack on with the job!!!”
“I am meeting with Rachel Levine and her team next week, as the US Department of Health is very keen to bring the trans health agenda forward.”
“The failure of WPATH to be ready with SOC 8 is proving a barrier to optimal policy progress and she [Dr. Levine] was eager to learn when SOC 8 might be published.”
“[T]his should be taken as a charge from the United States government to do what is required to complete the project immediately.”
Changes to the Standards of Care 8 were announced at its annual conference in 2022 hosted in Montreal. Many were shocked to learn that the age guidelines were removed.
In the previous guidelines, sex change medications could not be administered to children as young as 14, healthy breasts removed on children at least 15, and genital surgeries, excluding phalloplasty for females, for ages 17 and older.
The Standards of Care 8 noted that every person is different and that the guidelines can be altered. They gave no specific recommendations to determine when to start puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries.
Levine used the high position of assistant secretary to federally advocate for pushing sex change surgeries on children, going as far as pressuring insurance companies to pay the bill for the surgeries on both children and adults.
Boe v. Marshall was based on the plaintiff’s desire to block an Alabama law that would criminalize child sex changes through the use of drugs or surgery.
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