Re: Demented pervert Rachel Levine claims 'gender-affirming care' for minors is 'safe, medically necessary'

Susan <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> Levine is a disgusting pervert who should be in a mental prison.

WASHINGTON (TND) — U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine is 
again insisting there's a consensus among medical professionals that 
"gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective."

"Accredited medical professional groups agree that gender-affirming care 
is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary 
youth," Levine tweeted in response to an interview between former late 
night host Jon Stewart and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge.


Stewart, during the interview, challenged Rutledge over her state 
"overriding" this supposed consensus via its recently passed law 
restricting minors' ability to obtain "gender-affirming care."

"Gender-affirming care" commonly includes cross-sex hormones, puberty 
blockers, and gender reassignment surgeries.

Why would the state of Arkansas step in to override parents, physicians, 
psychiatrists, endocrinologists, who have developed guidelines -- why 
would you override those guidelines?" Stewart asked Rutledge during the 
interview.
The Arkansas Attorney General argued that for every single doctor 
supporting minors' access to "gender-affirming care" there are others who 
do not support it and believe the procedures have the potential to cause 
harmful and frequently irreversible effects that only someone over the age 
of 18 should be able to consent to.

But you know that's not true. You know it's not for every one, it's one," 
Stewart shot back, contesting Rutledge's claim that for every doctor 
supporting minors' access to "gender-affirming care" there is a doctor who 
opposes it. "You're suggesting that protecting children means overriding 
the recommendations of the American Medical Association, the American 
Association of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society."
Levine, like Stewart, has also insisted that "There is no argument among 
medical professionals" that minors' access to "gender-affirming care" is 
important and valuable.

Every major medical association agrees: gender-affirming care is life-
saving, medically necessary, age-appropriate and a critical tool for 
health care providers," Levine said earlier this year. She has even gone 
so far as to say that attempts to restrict this care among minors is 
"costing the lives of young people."

Levine has also argued there is a lack of data contradicting her belief 
that access to "gender-affirming care" is lifesaving and medically 
necessary, just as Stewart himself argued.

There are a few studies. I've looked at them. A lot of them say that we 
need more research. We agree," Levine said of research cited by the 
Florida Department of Health. "When you look at the forthcoming World 
Professional Association for Transgender Health standards of care and you 
see the hundreds and hundreds of articles, you will be able to see the 
difference between the research base for the standards of care and the few 
studies cited by Florida."
However, critics of Levine and Stewart's point of view on access to 
"gender-affirming care" for minors have argued its supposed supporting 
data is weak.

Jeremy Redfern, a spokesperson for the Florida Department of Health, 
argued Levine's claim that "every major medical association" agrees 
"gender-affirming care" saves kid's lives "isn't data," but rather is "an 
appeal to authority that is in stark contrast to the best available 
evidence."

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