White House trans policy at odds with new science, public opinion, red state ... trends now

White House trans policy at odds with new science, public opinion, red state ... trends now
White House trans policy at odds with new science, public opinion, red state ... trends now

White House trans policy at odds with new science, public opinion, red state ... trends now

The Biden administration's bid to normalize puberty blockers and other medical treatments for trans children increasingly puts the White House at odds with public opinion, Republican lawmakers and European allies.

The administration recently gave a full-throated endorsement of so-called 'gender-affirming care', for children, with Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine saying trans people had 'support at the highest levels of the federal government.'

At a public appearance last month, Levine, a trans woman, argued that puberty blockers and other drugs and surgeries that help minors change their gender cut the risks of suicide, saved lives, and were backed by major US medical bodies.

The pediatrician also acknowledged that such care has become hugely controversial, putting the administration at odds with voters, Republicans, and recent studies that trans drugs and procedures do kids more harm than good.

'I think that it's not going to be politically advantageous,' Levine said at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, predicting 'challenging' rows in next year's presidential election. 

Joe Biden's trans male-to-female health official, the pediatrician Rachel Levine, says she has stepped into a political 'minefield'

Joe Biden's trans male-to-female health official, the pediatrician Rachel Levine, says she has stepped into a political 'minefield'

A recent YouGov survey of 1,000 adults across red and blue states found that Americans were largely against gender-affirming procedures for children

A recent YouGov survey of 1,000 adults across red and blue states found that Americans were largely against gender-affirming procedures for children

'But I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that. And that this issue won't be as politically and socially such a minefield.'

Levine's vocal support for gender-affirming care has since been slammed by Republican politicians and medical groups. This echoes the fallout from President Joe Biden's controversial decision last year to host at the White House Dylan Mulvaney, an adult trans TikToker who records her transition into 'girlhood.'

Gender-affirming care covers everything from puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones and, in rare cases for trans children under 18, surgery. Several medical associations say such healthcare saves lives among a suicide-prone group.

But opponents of trans ideology say sex is determined at birth and cannot be changed, that medical groups have been hijacked by trans ideologues and that politicians must intervene to stop parents, doctors, or therapists from permanently harming children.

Many are alarmed by the sharp uptick in teenage girls with autism and other mental health woes asking for sex-change drugs in recent years, and of new studies linking puberty blockers to weaker bones and osteoporosis.     

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky passed a measure on Thursday to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors, the latest state to do so this year after conservatives proposed hundreds of bills across the US pushing back on various LGBTQ rights.

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Voters differ with the Biden administration on this frontline issue in America's culture wars. A recent YouGov survey of 1,000 adults across red and blue states found that Americans were largely against gender-affirming procedures for children.

Some 61 percent said rejected giving puberty blockers to 12-year-olds, while 21 percent said it was acceptable. They also deemed cross-sex hormones and breast surgeries unacceptable by similar margins.

DailyMail.com readers take a tougher line — 94 percent want the procedures banned in their state. There is still time to have your say and vote in our poll.    

Many critics of gender-affirming care in the US point to recent policy shifts in Europe, where health chiefs in several countries have backtracked after carrying out their own policy reviews.

Critics of the trans movement often point to de-transitioners, who come to regret their decisions to change gender and seek reversals. Pictured: Scars on the chest of Prisha Mosley, who had her breasts removed when she was 18 and now wants to reconstruct her chest through surgery that is expected to cost thousands of dollars

Critics of the trans movement often point to de-transitioners, who come to regret their decisions to change gender and seek reversals. Pictured: Scars on the chest of Prisha Mosley, who had her breasts removed when she was 18 and now wants to reconstruct her chest through surgery that is expected to cost thousands of dollars 

Britain's health service recently decided to close the country's only gender identity clinic for children, after a damning review and a slew of allegations by former staff and patients about rushing young people onto treatment.

A major Swedish clinic in 2021 stopped giving puberty blockers and hormones to children, and Finland's health chiefs decided that psychotherapy, not drugs and hormones, should be the first-line treatment for gender-dysphoric youngsters.

Finland's top transgender treatment expert, Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, last month said 'four out of five' teens who question their gender come to accept their bodies if they don't receive medical intervention.

A recent study by the medical watchdog, Do No Harm, found that the US has more lenient policies on chemical and surgical sex change services for children when compared against 11 European allies.

Researchers found that the US offers more legal and medical access to gender transition services for kids, such as clinics, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, in some cases without parental consent.

Dr Stanley Goldfarb, who campaigns against radical gender ideology and other 'wokery' in healthcare and contributed

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