HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine pressured WPATH to remove its age guidelines for trans treatments, all to further a political agenda.

From The Post Millennial. An exhibit filed in the case of Boe v. Marshall has revealed that Biden’s trans diversity hire Dr. Rachel Levine, who serves as the assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to remove guidelines on age limits for sex change drugs and surgeries.

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Levine’s reason was to further the progressive LGBTQ political agenda, and not for medical or scientific reasons. Levine did not want the guidance to fuel more laws prohibiting child sex changes. …

In that exhibit, Dr. James Cantor said that the internal communications of WPATH show that Levine “strongly pressured WPATH leadership to rush the development and issuance of SOC-8,” their latest standards of care for trans persons, “in order to assist with Administration political strategy.” …

This means that Levine pressured a group of medical professionals to hurry up and issue guidance on how to treat children with gender dysphoria in order to aid her boss’ political aims. Joe Biden, Levine’s top boss, instructed all federal agencies to be more trans-inclusive on his first day in office in 2021.

“What’s being told to the public is totally different from WPATH’s discussions in private,” Cantor said. The communications from WPATH read:

“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. So, let’s crack on with the job!!! (BOEAL_WPATH_061521.)” …

The exhibit from Cantor states that “Assistant Secretary Levine also attempted to and did influence the substantive content of SOC-8, based on political goals rather than science. Specifically, Assistant Secretary Levine, through a staff member, pressured WPATH to remove recommended minimum ages for medical transition treatments from SOC-8.”

The Standards of Care 8 did remove age guidance for medical sex changes, which shocked many. …

“Sarah Boateng, who is Adm. Levine’s chief of staff [said the] biggest concern is the section below in the Adolescent Chapter that lists specific minimum ages for treatment,” it reads, “she is confident, based on the rhetoric she is hearing in DC, and from what we have already seen, that these specific listings of ages, under 18, will result in devastating legislation for trans care. She wonders if the specific ages can be taken out and perhaps an adjunct document could be created that is published or distributed in a way that is less visible than the SOC8, is the way to go.” …

WPATH then made the changes, saying “[W]e heard your [Dr. Levine’s] comments regarding the minimal age criteria for transgender healthcare adolescents; the potential negative outcome of these minimal ages as recommendations in the US [. . .] Consequently, we have changes to the SOC 8 in this respect. Given that the recommendations for minimal ages for the various gender affirming medical and surgical intervention are consensus-based, we could not remove them from the document. Therefore, we have made changes as to how the minimal ages are presented in the documents.” …

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(Excerpt from The Post Millennial. Photo Credit: Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA – Gov. Wolf, Secretary Levine Provide Updated Guidance, Stress Need for Compliance as Cases Rise, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90772297)