The United States assistant secretary for health and the first transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, Rachel Levine, has taken a stance expressing that they want to “empower’ kids to get “gender-affirmation” care, which could even involve surgeries such as the removal of a young girl’s breasts.
The Health and Human Services department for Biden’s administration claims that “gender-affirming care” includes “gender-affirming surgeries” which could include “‘top’ surgery — to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts” or “‘bottom’ surgery — surgery on genitals or reproductive organs.”
“We really want to debase our treatment and to affirm and to support and empower these youth, not to limit their participation in sports and even limit their ability to get gender-affirmation treatment in their state,” expressed Levine in an interview on MSNBC.
Levine also claimed that these co-called transgender youth are forced to deal with anxiety and depression due to bullying and harassment rather than their transgender identity itself.
“Trans youth are vulnerable and they suffer significant harassment and bullying sometimes at schools or in their community,” exclaimed Levine. “They have more mental health issues, but there’s nothing inherent with being transgender or gender-diverse which would predispose youth to depression or anxiety. It is that harassment and bullying.”
“Now they’re suffering politically motivated attacks through state actions against these vulnerable transgender youth,” claimed Levine.
Just last week, one judge in Tennessee outright blocked officials in the Biden administration from setting in place their directive which would force states to let transgender students and staff use the school restrooms opposite of their biological sex. One Judge Charles Atchley blocks the motion from the Biden admin to toss out the lawsuit that was officially filed by a group of over 20 state Republican attorneys general.
Out of the Eastern District of Tennessee, Judge Charles Atchley Jr. ruled in favor of the gathered Republican Attorneys General who has sued the Biden administration late last year, arguing that the bide admin’s directive blocked states from being able to enforce their own laws.
The Biden admin’s main directive not only makes the demand of companies and schools to allow people labeling themselves as transgender to access bathrooms opposite from their biological sex, but also insists that all sports teams for the schools let those kids participate on the team of the opposite biological sex.
Biden’s administration based this directive on the opinion from the Supreme Court in Bostock v. Clayton, but Atchley wrote, “The Bostock decision only addressed sex discrimination under Title VII; the Supreme Court expressly declined to ‘prejudge’ how its holding would apply to ‘other federal or state laws that prohibit sex discrimination’ such as Title IX,” reported The Washington Times.
“Similarly, the Supreme Court explicitly refused to decide whether ‘sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes’ violate Title VII. Bostock does not require Defendants’ interpretations of Title VII and IX. Instead, Defendants fail to cabin themselves to Bostock’s holding,” he stated.
After the decision from Atchley, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt was ecstatic, “We sued the Biden administration to stop it from punishing states that keep men out of women’s sports. Late Friday, the judge agreed and granted us a temporary injunction.”