The Biden administration is facing criticism following revelations that officials pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to remove age limits for gender transition surgeries and treatments for minors. Internal emails and court documents indicate that Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health, played a significant role in advocating for these changes. The draft proposal initially suggested age limits between 14 to 17 years for various hormone or surgical interventions. The administration's actions have sparked controversy, with opponents arguing that the removal of age restrictions prioritizes political goals over medical science and child safety. Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Chip Roy have demanded investigations into the Department of Justice's prosecution of Dr. Eithan Haim, a whistleblower who exposed Texas Children's Hospital for performing gender transition procedures on children as young as eleven. The DOJ's actions are being criticized as politically motivated and an abuse of power.
BREAKING: Rep @chiproytx sent a letter to AG Merrick Garland today, demanding that the DOJ explain its targeting of whistleblower @EithanHaim after he exposed Texas Children’s Hospital for performing s*x-change surgeries on minors. “This prosecution is just the latest example… https://t.co/z4Ot7I7hRW
“This prosecution is just the latest example of how the Biden-Garland Justice Department is using the law to target ideological adversaries instead of equally enforcing the law,” @chiproytx wrote in his letter over @EithanHaim's indictment. https://t.co/HrUZFflCWn
Translation: the Administration supports chemical castration of pubescent children and cross-sex hormones for slightly older teens https://t.co/wZPsRvAWyW
In response to news that @SecretaryLevine of @HHSGov pressured @wpath to eliminate age minimums for gender surgeries, the White House has officially announced that it “does not support surgery for minors.” @TheDemocrats https://t.co/3iSd7S6kf6
Will @SecretaryLevine and her push for no age limits on so-called "gender-affirming" surgeries come up in tonight's #PresidentialDebate? >> https://t.co/1WAVG9YkIe https://t.co/flvr2STiTQ
The supposed consensus in support of gender transitions for minors is falling apart in plain view. Read @laureldugg on the latest leaked WPATH communications 👇 https://t.co/Zg2YtQFOTr
🚨| “This prosecution is just the latest example of how the Biden-Garland Justice Department is using the law to target ideological adversaries instead of equally enforcing the law." https://t.co/4QBq9OiSkD
Advocates for child gender transitions have long claimed to be in complete agreement on medical guidelines. Unearthed emails paint a very different picture, writes @laureldugg 👇 https://t.co/Zg2YtQFOTr
Sen. Ted Cruz has opened a probe of the Justice Department's prosecution of a whistleblower who revealed gender transition procedures performed on children as young as 11 at a Texas hospital. https://t.co/8YW6dQZygt
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Chip Roy has written a letter to AG Merrick Garland, demanding all documents related to the prosecution of Dr. Eithan Haim, who blew the whistle on Texas Children's Hospital's child sex-change program. The DOJ is abusing its power—and must be held to account. https://t.co/F2ICdzjx4w
1/ NEW: The Biden admin just told the Supreme Court that the American Medical Association recognizes WPATH’s “Standards of Care” as the “consensus” in so-called trans medicine. But in a now unsealed 2022 email, the AMA doesn’t endorse, or seem eager to “support,” those standards. https://t.co/U5QjJh9UFX
Dr. Eithan Haim exposed a Texas hospital for performing gender transition procedures on children as young as eleven years old. Now, the DOJ is prosecuting him. We are seeing the most politicized DOJ in American history. https://t.co/6nJ55s0W1h
Bombshell revelations about WPATH interfering with systematic reviews about trans medical care: https://t.co/Nqn5aiBFNU
DOJ Tries To Shut Down Case That Exposed Biden Admin Colluded On Medical Standards Used To Justify Child Sex Changes https://t.co/CnZdlSqGrU
Research into trans medicine has been manipulated Court documents offer a window into how this happens, @JesseSingal reports for @TheEconomist. https://t.co/qrduTtxdAp
Thread on very damning WPATH emails https://t.co/0ZhuB1K8zV
1/ New from me in @TheEconomist: Emails released during discovery in a youth gender medicine case demonstrate that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health interfered w/the systematic reviews it commissioned from Johns Hopkins University. https://t.co/APFmyHhTpg
This is child abuse. https://t.co/URiwPNgPcU
Radical Democrats will stop at nothing to shred the fabric of our nation and American families. No government official should be advocating for minors to have access to life altering surgeries. https://t.co/Z2BNrVSHGc
Claim of Suicide Surge in Youths on U.K. Wait List for Gender Care Undermined by ‘Cass Review’ 🧵: I report for The @NewYorkSun: The report on pediatric gender care also undermines suggestions by @GoodLawProject's @JolyonMaugham that after the Tavistock v Bell decision in Dec.… https://t.co/GkVZCH7Icx
DOJ tries to shut down case that exposed Biden admin colluded on medical standards used to justify child sex changes https://t.co/zNvDvXDZcX
How WPATH established policies that forbade systematic literature reviews that might cast a negative light on pediatric gender-transition treatment: In Oct. 2020, @WPATH leadership informed the transgender medicine-activist organization's members of a new policy regarding the… https://t.co/iYEwaKGtzR
.@tedcruz requested information from the DOJ attorney leading the prosecution against Dr. Eithan Haim, who was charged with violating HIPAA for leaking medical records that exposed Texas Children's Hospital's transgender clinic. | @dezward01 https://t.co/xxzGmElgtR
US: Biden transgender policy endangers children and increases burden of psychiatric illness. @P_McCulloughMD @FoxNews @JudgeJeanine https://t.co/lS0g30KseO
Sen. Ted Cruz proposes new legislation following North Texas girl's 'deepfake' AI horror story https://t.co/BkiaSa2srL
Michael Hobbes is wrong about where the documentation of Rachel Levine pressuring WPATH to remove age restrictions came from. These were *not* leaked documents, as Hobbes claims. These were internal WPATH communications subpoenaed as part of the federal court case over Alabama’s… https://t.co/i0EQ2aNUAA
"The revelations about the #Biden admin are the latest example showing how progressives are willing to prioritize politics and gender ideology over the mental health of children." -- @jeffcharlesjr Use code "SAVEAMERICA" for a VIP membership discount. https://t.co/sWHIP69HeY
It's time to shut down the pediatric sex-change program at Texas Children’s Hospital. If you want to take action, send an email to the hospital's leadership, demanding that they stop cutting up kids in the name of "gender-affirming care." Details here: https://t.co/FzwA7XMk5c
The Biden administration successfully pressured WPATH to remove age minimums for gender treatments—then prosecuted a doctor, Eithan Haim, for exposing how a Texas hospital was performing those procedures on young children. https://t.co/6XBSkpe5nN
“This investigation appears to bear the markings of a politically-driven prosecution, which has unfortunately been the stock-in-trade of the present Department of Justice,” @SenTedCruz wrote. https://t.co/pyYZCDRydt
NO ONE under the age of 18 should receive these unnecessary, life-altering, and DANGEROUS surgeries. It’s child abuse. https://t.co/k7tuTdZTOl
The Biden administration played politics to push drastic surgeries on minors. Disgraceful. https://t.co/vm3X89YZjM
BREAKING: Senator @TedCruz criticizes the indictment of whistleblower Eithan Haim as a "politically-driven prosecution" and demands documents from the US Attorney's office. The Biden Administration is manipulating the law to punish political opponents. They must be stopped. https://t.co/d6tPj85jDy
BREAKING: Senator @TedCruz slams the indictment of whistleblower Eithan Haim as a "politically-driven prosecution" and demands documents from the US Attorney's office. The Biden Administration is manipulating the law to punish political opponents. They must be stopped. https://t.co/OrFuZKi1IM
By indicting @EithanHaim, the DOJ is seeking to silence future whistleblowers and to signal its disregard for the mounting evidence that gender-affirming care is harmful, and often irreversible, argues @Maddie_Rowley_. https://t.co/KBB6QkC19Z
ANYBODY surprised? EXCLUSIVE: Top pediatric org quietly colluded with trans ideologues to push child sex changes, emails show https://t.co/AYocFRghM4
Good to see @nytimes reporting honestly about trans issues, that the Biden administration's policies are being directed by activism over medical science, which states that no one knows the long-term consequences of medical interventions. Watchful waiting. https://t.co/JEmSk0bxGA
Biden Admin Colluded With Top Transgender Medical Org On Politicized Policy: Unsealed Court Docs https://t.co/lCnulkIh3g
Rachel Levine Pressured Health Experts to Remove Age Limits on So-Called 'Trans Care' https://t.co/i4IulkQoZ6
REVEALED: Rachel Levine Successfully Pressured Medical Experts to Promote Child Sex Changes READ: https://t.co/YlvswZqplc https://t.co/ra5F288TFj
Exclusive: Top pediatric org quietly colluded with trans ideologues to push child sex changes, emails show https://t.co/BEgW2oc3Ow
A new report has alleged that a transgender US government official pressured the world's leading transgender health authority to drop the minimum age to medically transition minors. Rachel Levine's office communicated with WPATH just before the revision. https://t.co/3TouTKfLlu
Internal emails revealed that staff for HHS assistant secretary Richard Levine called on @WPATH to remove their age limits for s*x change surgeries. The staff said Levine was “very concerned” age limits would encourage legislation banning the procedures for minors. Levine… https://t.co/0IZ3GYCVtd
It's been a HUGE week. The Biden administration was caught pressuring WPATH to remove age limits on "gender-affirming care," and the Supreme Court is about to hear a case on pediatric sex trait modification. Time to end this madness. https://t.co/sqBhfUu5xo
I’ve been reporting on the political corruption of advocates for transitioning minors, absence of robust scientific evidence, for over 2 years now! Now @nytimes readers are finally learning that pediatric sex-trait modification has always been guided by activism, not science. https://t.co/Qz3SE8T6rD
When I asked Sec. Becerra a couple of weeks ago about the administration's position for trans care for minors, he said they defaulted to the position of medical associations: https://t.co/oBMwY9ZPJq But the administration did try to influence WPATH: https://t.co/YPmcQdtQBS
In other words, Biden officials want no age minimums at all. The draft proposal was for age limits between 14 to 17 years of age for various type of hormone or surgical interventions. All mention of age minimums were removed. https://t.co/b48dKO5CyN
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Top Pediatric Org Quietly Colluded With Trans Ideologues To Push Child Sex Changes, Emails Show My latest via @DailyCaller News Foundation revealing a collaboration between the AAP and WPATH. https://t.co/oQYrg3JThn
I wasn't the least bit surprised by this news, but I was surprised the NYT was willing to cover it. I hope people see through some of the BS and understand what happened here. The Biden admin didn't want any state laws in the US to limit gender surgery on minors, so they pushed… https://t.co/lUDx5DNJXv
EXCLUSIVE: Top Pediatric Org Quietly Colluded With Trans Ideologues To Push Child Sex Changes, Emails Show https://t.co/DdA4PSA0gB
This NYT article is pretty damning. Apparently Rachel Levine got age limits for transgender surgeries removed from medical guidelines because the proposed ages were so low that even mentioning them would generate opposition. https://t.co/BeMR9Jz0Uw
Remember to “trust the science” being pushed by a grown man pretending he’s a woman: “Health officials in the Biden administration pressed an international group of medical experts to remove age limits for adolescent surgeries from guidelines for care of transgender minors,… https://t.co/yss7hRxwfS https://t.co/lfNaAY2O5E
A Biden administration official pressured WPATH to revise its guidelines to meet political goals. https://t.co/AUnDCGVYFI
“The email excerpts released this week shed light on possible reasons for those guideline changes, and highlight Admiral Levine’s role as a top point person on transgender issues in the Biden administration.” https://t.co/uz8OKh1zF7
The Biden admin’s obsession with sterilizing and mutilating perfectly healthy children is sickening and must be stopped. https://t.co/g3x29Sg9Pt