Adm. Rachel Levine, the trans-identifying assistant secretary for health in the Biden administration, mocked critics who slammed President Joe Biden for celebrating the “Transgender Day of Visibility” on Easter.
On Sunday, as Christians worldwide celebrated Easter, Biden posted on X, &#8220;Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you. You are made in the image of God, and you’re worthy of respect and dignity.&#8221;
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Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans:
I see you.
You are made in the image of God, and you&#39;re worthy of respect and dignity. <a href="https://t.co/ihvsJrXEyd">pic.twitter.com/ihvsJrXEyd</a>
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1774511985700352189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He also posted, “On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the joy, strength, and absolute courage of some of the bravest people I know.”
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the joy, strength, and absolute courage of some of the bravest people I know.
Today, we show millions of transgender and nonbinary Americans that we see them, they belong, and they should be treated with dignity and respect. <a href="https://t.co/mhixHV9KC2">pic.twitter.com/mhixHV9KC2</a>
&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1774466760084717656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Among others, former President Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/assault-on-the-christian-faith-trump-campaign-blasts-biden-declaring-easter-sunday-transgender-day-of-visibility">released a statement</a> calling the declaration an example of the Biden administration&#8217;s “years-long assault on the Christian faith.” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1774147658841493617">posted</a> on X that the White House “has betrayed the central tenet of Easter — which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ &#8230; Banning sacred truth and tradition — while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as &#8216;Transgender Day&#8217; — is outrageous and abhorrent. The American people are taking note.”
Former Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/1774159075451805791">said</a> on X, “This should [be] evidence to anyone who voted for Biden in 2020 because they thought he was reasonable that he is not. Biden is pandering to the radical fringe within politics. The only reason to pick Easter Sunday for this day was to stir up division with Christians. He is wrong!”
Levine subsequently mocked the critics in an interview with <a href="https://www.advocate.com/news/rachel-levine-transgender-biden-administration">The Advocate</a>, saying, “I felt that it was faux outrage. It was manufactured &#8230; It’s just that this Sunday was Easter, which is a very important holiday and very important event, and it also just happened to be the 31st.”
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Levine then cited the iconic &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; films, declaring that the critics were, in reality, afraid: “You know there’s a quote from Yoda &#8230; Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.”
“This is not a social contagion phenomenon, and we’ve been around forever, hiding in the closet. So, the ability in our society now is not to be in the closet. We need to foster that and to nurture that,” Levine insisted.
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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Rachel Levine Mocks Critics Who Slammed Biden For Celebrating ‘Transgender Day Of Visibility’ On Easter

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When he was nominated to be the Assistant Secretary for Health three years ago, Richard Levine (who, in his 50s, began using the name Rachel Levine) was asked a series of questions by Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Paul wanted to know why Levine, as a medical professional, wouldn&#8217;t reject the idea of mutilating the genitals of minors in the name of &#8220;gender affirming care.&#8221; 
Here&#8217;s how the conversation went:
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That&#8217;s just a portion of the whole exchange. In the full clip, Levine evades the question multiple times. He just repeats the same rehearsed answer: He says that he&#8217;s more than happy to stop by Paul&#8217;s office at some later date to explain the &#8220;complex&#8221; science behind mutilating children. They go back and forth until Paul finally has to give up. And then at the end of it, as you saw, Democratic Senator Patty Murray from Washington congratulates Levine on his &#8220;thoughtful and medical informed&#8221; answers to Paul.
Ten years ago, this would&#8217;ve been a scene from a dark comedy sketch about a dystopia that&#8217;s just too far-fetched to imagine in real life. This should have been the moment that Levine was disqualified from ever holding public office, much less becoming a senior official in the Department of Health and Human Services. But Democrats and even some Republicans — including Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — didn&#8217;t see a problem with Levine&#8217;s answer. They voted to confirm Levine after hearing this. These are sitting U.S. senators who, evidently, have no problem with the fact that Levine supports the physical castration of children — even though he could present no evidence that it&#8217;s medically appropriate.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
To be clear, Senator Paul was not misrepresenting Levine&#8217;s position in any way. This was not a &#8220;gotcha&#8221; question. Emails unearthed by Megan Brock show that in 2017, when he was the Secretary of Health in Pennsylvania, Levine went looking for data to justify so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; for minors. 
Levine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to Nadia Dowshen, the co-founder of the gender clinic at the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia, that he was seeking information concerning, &#8220;the possibility of gender confirmation surgery for young people under 18 years of age.&#8221; Levine added that, &#8220;This could include top surgery for trans young men and top and bottom surgery for trans young women. Is there any literature to support this protocol? Please let me know if you have any references.&#8221;
In response, Dowshen wrote, “Hi Rachel, I&#8217;m not aware of existing literature but it is certainly happening. I think we&#8217;ve had more than 10 patients who have had chest surgery under 18 (as young as 15) and 1 bottom surgery (17).&#8221;
Needless to say, after reading that response, Levine did not put an end to these surgeries in Pennsylvania, even when he was told there was no medical evidence to justify them. Instead, Levine continued to hide behind the consensus of various self-appointed medical experts, including the several medical associations that have endorsed this butchery. That&#8217;s what Levine did at the hearing with Rand Paul. And it&#8217;s what he&#8217;s done ever since he assumed office.
A little over a year ago, for example, Levine commented on a viral clip featuring Jon Stewart and the attorney general of Arkansas. I&#8217;ll play a little bit of it to provide some context for what Levine said:
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Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors &#8211; ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus <a href="https://t.co/4SoH3orWa6">pic.twitter.com/4SoH3orWa6</a>
&mdash; The Problem With Jon Stewart (@TheProblem) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheProblem/status/1578414849083654144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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You can see in that clip why the &#8220;appeal to experts&#8221; is so effective. Even people who are on the right side of this issue, like the Arkansas attorney general, don&#8217;t know how to respond to it. The best she can do is say, &#8220;well, my experts disagree with your experts.&#8221; But of course that&#8217;s the wrong response. The right response is that you don&#8217;t need to be an &#8220;expert&#8221; in anything to know that mutilating the genitals of children is wrong. And if anyone claims to be an expert and defends that butchery, then they lose &#8220;expert status&#8221; immediately. It&#8217;s that simple. But for some reason, many on the Right can&#8217;t bring themselves to say that, even as the &#8220;experts&#8221; lie to them about pretty much everything — from COVID to foreign affairs to climate change and even to the mutilation of children.
In any event, Levine saw that clip, and decided it was yet another opportunity to promote these all-knowing medical associations and experts. Here&#8217;s what Levine <a href="https://x.com/HHS_ASH/status/1580277406820012032?s=20">wrote</a> on Twitter: &#8220;Accredited medical professional groups agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth. States should translate this knowledge into more compassionate policies that protect rather than undermine youth mental health.&#8221;
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Accredited medical professional groups agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth. States should translate this knowledge into more compassionate policies that protect rather than undermine youth mental health. <a href="https://t.co/FCgy88o47x">https://t.co/FCgy88o47x</a>
&mdash; ADM Rachel Levine (@HHS_ASH) <a href="https://twitter.com/HHS_ASH/status/1580277406820012032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This is a bluff that Levine has made over and over again, throughout his career. He repeatedly states that there&#8217;s a vast body of &#8220;knowledge&#8221; that justifies these surgeries and procedures. But this time, after that tweet, someone decided to call Levine out on it.
A nonprofit watchdog group called &#8220;Protect the Public&#8217;s Trust,&#8221; or PPT, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hhs-says-it-has-only-two-pages-of-scientific-evidence-backing-its-support-for-gender-affirming-care">filed</a> a Freedom of Information Act request in response to Levine&#8217;s tweet. The request sought &#8220;records of scientific evidence, studies, and/or data to support the Assistant Secretary’s claim that ‘gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth,&#8217;” as well as “records of surveys of medical professionals regarding the value and importance of ‘gender-affirming care’ for minor children.&#8221;
This week, more than a year after Levine&#8217;s tweet, the results are in. We finally have access to this data that Levine promised to show Rand Paul in his office, and which he talks about constantly. In response to the Freedom of Information Act Request, HHS produced a grand total of just one document. And it&#8217;s not a long, well-researched study that proves convincingly why we need to mutilate children. Instead, it&#8217;s a <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/gender-affirming-care-young-people.pdf">two-page</a> brochure called “Gender-Affirming Care and Young People.” This is all they could produce a year later to support their position.
And the brochure itself isn&#8217;t exactly the most compelling document. The brochure states, as a matter of fact, that puberty blockers are always reversible. But that&#8217;s not true. As even the New York Times <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> recently, &#8220;A transgender adolescent in Sweden who took the drugs from age 11 to 14 with no bone scans until the last year of treatment developed osteoporosis and sustained a compression fracture in his spine, an X-ray showed in 2021. &#8230; &#8216;The patient now suffers from continued back pain,&#8217; medical records note, describing a &#8216;permanent disability&#8217; caused by the blockers.”
And that&#8217;s not even getting into potential <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issues</a> with fertility. There are documented cases in medical literature of these drugs having permanent effects, and they&#8217;ve only been in use for a few years.
So the claim in the brochure, which has no citation, is completely false. As more and more children are put on these &#8220;puberty blockers,&#8221; and as time passes, that will be obvious to everyone.
But the brochure provided by the Biden administration doesn&#8217;t stop there. It also claims that, “research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender-diverse children.” And as evidence of that claim, the brochure cites one study in a footnote.
This <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1310-the-government-accidentally-confirms-that-it-has-absolutely-no-evidence-to-support-so-called-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">single study</a>, The Daily Wire&#8217;s Luke Rosiak reported yesterday, supposedly &#8220;showed that transgender-identifying young people were slightly less suicidal when receiving treatment.&#8221; Specifically, the researchers say that they found in a survey group that 51% of trans-identifying young people who were receiving cross-sex hormones were suicidal, compared to 62% who weren’t receiving hormones but wanted them. But even the authors of this study admit that it doesn&#8217;t prove anything about causation. They write, &#8220;causation cannot be inferred due to the study’s cross-sectional design. It is possible that those who historically have higher rates of depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors are also less able to seek or obtain [cross-sex hormones].&#8221;
This also says absolutely nothing about the long term psychological effects of this “treatment.” They offer no evidence, no research, on that question. None at all. This is the sum total of the evidence that the Biden administration was able to present to justify the castration of children. It&#8217;s a two-page pamphlet that links to a study from three years ago, in which the authors admit that their study doesn&#8217;t even mean anything. This is definitive proof — as if we needed it — that the Biden administration and the medical establishment, along with the entire American Left, jumped on board the &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; racket without any solid evidentiary basis for doing so.
That is a major problem, obviously, because they are harming children in horrific, unthinkable ways. But also because the burden of proof, for the people in favor of child castration, is especially high. Like I’ve explained many times, the burden of proof is on the people who came along claiming that we can turn boys into girls and vice versa. As they are the ones making an extraordinary claim that contradicts what everyone in the history of the world has always known to be true, they needed to have extraordinary evidence to support their position. Instead they had no evidence at all. Nothing. 
Yet they were believed automatically, while the sane side was required to produce evidence refuting them. Suddenly the burden of proof was on us to prove that you shouldn’t mutilate and castrate children. Of course, we can prove our case a million times over, and we have, but the game was rigged against us from the start. The pro-child castraters wanted documented research showing the actual real world harm of these procedures on kids. But obviously we couldn’t immediately provide very much of that because we didn&#8217;t yet have real world data showing the harm that these drugs would do to kids, for the simple reason that nobody had ever done this to kids before. So they turned a whole generation of kids into lab rats. The kids themselves would become the data.
The only way to explain how anyone fell for this scam is that trans activists are good at one thing, which is emotional manipulation. They perfected the art of emotional blackmail to the point that weak people have allowed this to go on for the better part of a decade. But the ruse isn&#8217;t working anymore. Now people are asking to see the evidence, and there isn&#8217;t any. All trans activists can do is screech as loudly as they can about &#8220;genocide,&#8221; even though no one&#8217;s buying it anymore. We saw this phenomenon play out to a comical degree this week in Florida, which is preparing to pass a bill that would <a href="https://flvoicenews.com/bill-requiring-biological-sex-on-drivers-licenses-pushes-forward-this-is-about-biology/">prevent</a> people from changing their gender on their driver&#8217;s license. Watch how the completely calm and rational local trans activists and concerned citizens responded to this legislation:
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WATCH: Activists outraged over Florida bill that requires biological sex on drivers licenses
&quot;The only thing that this period of Florida history will be remembered for is the trail of body bags left behind.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/uo5595HYjC">pic.twitter.com/uo5595HYjC</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1754566206462275593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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No matter what the proposal is — whether it&#8217;s mutilating the genitals of children, or changing the gender on their driver&#8217;s license — the response is always the same. They claim you&#8217;re leaving a &#8220;trail of dead bodies&#8221; if you dare to disagree with their delusions.
Trans activists wield their emotional fragility like a bludgeon. We see it constantly, which leads to the conclusion that one of two things is possible. Either it&#8217;s an act and they&#8217;re really just manipulative liars and therefore shouldn&#8217;t be taken seriously, or they actually are this insanely unstable and weak and immature and therefore shouldn’t be taken seriously. Whichever is the case, or if it’s a combination of the two, the conclusion is the same: we cannot take these people seriously. And we never should have.

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The Government Accidentally Confirms It Has No Real Evidence To Support So-Called ‘Gender Affirming Care’ For Minors

The Government Accidentally Confirms It Has No Real Evidence To Support So-Called 'Gender Affirming Care' For Minors

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The Department of Health and Human Services said it has only two pages of literature supporting Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine’s assessment that “gender-affirming care” is “necessary” for transgender youth, prompting allegations that the transgender-identifying Biden administration official has violated the Department&#8217;s scientific integrity policies by baselessly claiming it&#8217;s settled science.
<a href="https://protectpublicstrust.org/">Protect the Public&#8217;s Trust</a> (PPT), a nonprofit watchdog, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for “records of scientific evidence, studies, and/or data to support the Assistant Secretary’s claim that &#8216;gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth,'&#8221; as well as for “records of surveys of medical professionals regarding the value and importance of &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; for minor children.”
In response, HHS produced only a single document—a two-page PDF called <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/gender-affirming-care-young-people.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Gender-Affirming Care and Young People.”</a> The document is also on HHS’ website and is not a scientific study, but rather a brochure that declares that “research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender-diverse children.”
It supports the statement with a footnote to a single study that showed that transgender-identifying young people were slightly less suicidal when receiving treatment — <a href="https://www.jahonline.org/action/showPdf?pii=S1054-139X%2821%2900568-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51% who were receiving such care were suicidal</a>, slightly lower than the 62% who weren’t receiving hormones but wanted them. The HHS document also states that puberty blockers are reversible and hormone therapy is partially reversible.
HHS claimed that Levine — a man who believes he is a woman — made no other mentions of “gender-affirming care” in his emails, PPT said. 
PPT on Tuesday wrote to the HHS Inspector General requesting that the office open an investigation, saying that Levine is violating the Department’s scientific integrity policies by making politically-motivated declarations and misrepresenting scientific evidence. 
“This suggests that Assistant Secretary Levine has constantly, continually, ‘everywhere I go,’ made unequivocal statements regarding the medical necessity, safety, and effectiveness of gender-affirming care based entirely upon a single two-page document,” the letter said. 
The complaint, obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire, says that government officials using their stature as science officials to make politically motivated statements and casting them as irrefutable science risks a further &#8220;loss of trust&#8221; in scientific institutions that would be &#8220;cataclysmic.&#8221;
“When asked for ‘records of scientific evidence, studies, and/or data’ and for ‘records of surveys of medical professionals’ to support these claims, HHS was able to provide only a single information sheet – essentially a piece of marketing material with cherry-picked data and agenda-driven assertions,&#8221; the complaint said. &#8220;This is the opposite of science and evidence-based policymaking and flies in the face of the agency’s pledge of ‘adherence to professional practices, ethical behavior, and the principles of honesty and objectivity when conducting, managing, using the results of, and communicating about science and scientific activities.'&#8221;
Michael Chamberlain, the group&#8217;s director, said the agency&#8217;s failure to provide evidence for its claims explains &#8220;why trust in government health officials has evaporated.&#8221;
“When we asked HHS to provide this data, all they offered was a single two-page information sheet with links to cherry-picked, often activist-generated research to justify irreversible and possibly dangerous measures,&#8221; Chamberlain told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Meanwhile, European health services are actively withdrawing their support for these therapies. Even in the face of this, the Assistant Secretary accuses skeptics of ideological motives.&#8221;
Levine has regularly used his role as a science official to declare that “the treatment options for gender-affirming care for transgender youth really are evidence-based,” and opposition to it is “unconscionable.” 
“Gender-affirming care for transgender youth is essential,” he told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-care/">Reuters</a>.
“There is no argument among medical professionals—pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine, physicians, adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, et cetera—about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care,” Levine told <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/29/1095227346/rachel-levine-calls-state-anti-lgbtq-bills-disturbing-and-dangerous-to-trans-you">NPR</a>. The <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/03/02/statement-hhs-secretary-xavier-becerra-reaffirming-hhs-support-and-protection-for-lgbtqi-children-and-youth.html">HHS website</a> similarly hides behind “science,” saying, “At HHS, we listen to medical experts and doctors, and they agree with us, that access to affirming care for transgender youth is essential.”
Such assertions not only ignore a growing body of scientific literature and experts, but declare that they do not exist, PPT said.  
“These statements not only do not acknowledge the contrary evidence, they assert that there is none,&#8221; the group argues. &#8220;In spite of voluminous scientific evidence from around the world, as well as a growing number of policy decisions in other countries that run in the opposite direction, Adm. Levine has consistently made assertions indicating there is no data, studies, or evidence that contradicts or does not support these statements. The Assistant Secretary has also not only ignored the burgeoning controversy regarding the use of these treatments for minors, but has declared that it simply does not exist, that there is not a modicum of controversy in the scientific or medical communities regarding these treatments.&#8221;
“In fact, the opposite appears to be true. There appears to be little evidence in support of the statements issued by Adm. Levine. HHS was provided the opportunity to present the evidence upon which these statements are based. Instead of producing reams of studies, data, and evidence, the agency was unable to deliver anything but a single two-page information sheet, with a few cherry-picked studies. It is difficult to imagine a more clear-cut case of an official violating HHS’s scientific integrity policies and undermining the state of science in pursuit of a controversial policy agenda.&#8221;
PPT pointed the Inspector General to a significant volume of information rebutting the claim that there &#8220;is no argument among medical professionals&#8221; about gender transitioning.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html">The New York Times</a> this month highlighted children who said they were rushed into a gender transition and regretted it, and therapists who are now skeptical of an &#8220;affirming&#8221; model. Britain closed its transgender clinic and warned doctors that many youth are just going through a phase. Norway, Finland, and Sweden also found a lack of evidence that the benefits of hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries outweigh the risks.
The authors of a landmark 2019 study that was used to support the idea that gender transitions lead to mental stability later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/researchers-issue-correction-on-key-claim-in-study-supporting-transgender-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">corrected</a> their study, stating that their data “demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care visits.”
To the contrary, the authors acknowledged, “individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had received gender-affirming surgery were more likely to be treated for anxiety disorders compared with individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had not received gender-affirming surgery.”

HHS Says It Has Only Two Pages Of Scientific Evidence Backing Its Support For “Gender-Affirming Care”

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rachel-levine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Levine</a> faced backlash this week after claiming in an interview that children can go through &#8220;the wrong puberty.&#8221;
Levine, a man who claims he is a woman, made the remarks during an interview on a new ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Nightline&#8221; series &#8220;Identity Denied: Trans in America.&#8221;
&#8220;The treatment options for gender-affirming care for transgender youth really are evidence-based,&#8221; Levine claimed. &#8220;Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard. What if you&#8217;re going through the wrong puberty? What if you inside feel that you are female, but now you&#8217;re going through a male puberty?&#8221;
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Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Levine — who transitioned *as an adult* — dismisses the question of why children can’t wait until they turn 18 to pursue sex change surgeries:
“Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard. What if you’re going through the wrong puberty?”
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Levin faced widespread backlash for his false claim that a person can go through the &#8220;wrong puberty.&#8221;
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1681303595298467842?s=46&amp;t=XGiUuNPiSLBSXsXhdarMAQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> back at Levine, &#8220;What if you&#8217;re a mentally ill person given extraordinary power to say insane things.&#8221;
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that Americans must &#8220;fight back&#8221; against &#8220;woke bureaucrats.&#8221;
&#8220;No one can go through &#8216;the wrong puberty,'&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;Woke bureaucrats are lying to our children and trying to destroy our country. We must fight back.&#8221;
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1681350849036009483" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> Levine: &#8220;He has no business pushing these dangerous procedures—that have no basis in science—on kids.&#8221;
Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1681312484031082497" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Yes, what if you&#8217;re going through the wrong puberty?&#8221;
&#8220;Also, what if you have the wrong liver or the wrong left kneecap?&#8221; he added. &#8220;What if you have the wrong eye color? What if you have the wrong DNA? These and many other questions make sense if you&#8217;re a delusional schizophrenic.&#8221;

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Transgender Biden Health Official Blasted For Claiming Kids Can Go Through The ‘Wrong Puberty’

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The following is the opening satirical monologue from “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1126-right-vs-left-right-vs-wrong">The Andrew Klavan Show.</a>“
The Biden Administration has issued its final report on Biden’s disastrous surrender in Afghanistan, and the report says the Biden decisions that led to the Biden plan that created the Biden catastrophe are the fault of Donald Trump. To show the administration was taking full responsibility for the Biden disaster caused by Trump, the report was thrown out of a speeding car in a brown paper bag on the Friday night before Easter weekend while Joe Biden snuck out of the White House then jumped on a helicopter to Camp David. Fortunately, Defense Department spokesman John Kirby was left behind to take reporters’ questions — although Kirby only became available after chasing Biden’s helicopter for half an hour, shouting, “Come back, please don’t leave me behind to take reporters’ questions.”
The report, written by the late comedian John Belushi, gives a new inside look at the intense war room conferences in which Joe Biden and his advisors designed a plan that would lead to chaos, death and global disorder because of Donald Trump.
In one meeting for instance, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General and Thoroughly Modern Milley arrived late because his adult education class on Understanding White Rage had run long and he had had to rush home to change into a floor-length evening gown with voluminous ruffles cascading down the skirt beneath a flattering pleated waist. Swanning gracefully back and forth across the war room, General Modern repeatedly advised Biden that at least 25-hundred US troops should remain in Afghanistan in order to entertain the Taliban conquerors with an ever-so-fun synchronized dance routine reminiscent of the Rockettes only more gay. General Willy-Milley felt this would atone for generations of systemic American racism with a show of support for LGBT causes until the Taliban finally learned that trans women are women and should be oppressed and beaten just like all their other women. Milley said, “It isn’t fair for the Taliban to murder girls for trying to get an education while boys who dress up as girls are only murdered for dressing up as girls.”
As the meeting continued, Admiral of the Ocean Waves Richard Levine suggested that he or possibly his twin sister Rachel who was conveniently also himself would send a flotilla of ships to Afghanistan to distribute pamphlets to the Taliban explaining why healthy children should be sexually butchered. That suggestion was tabled after it was discovered that the Taliban was already perfectly happy to butcher children, and also Afghanistan is landlocked.
Speaking for the intelligence community, U.S. National Security Director Vladimir Kung Pao said American agents should undermine the Taliban by infiltrating Catholic churches in America. There, the agents could make sure that no one was speaking Latin, which might slow the decay of American culture into a godless miasma of spiritual degradation or otherwise impede the Biden administration’s agenda.
Despite these incisive suggestions from his perfectly selected team of crack military and intelligence advisors, Joe Biden announced that he was the smartest man in the room and had therefore decided he’d have two scoops of the pistachio ice cream after lunch instead of mixing it with one scoop of swirly caramel, and would also pull out all air and materiel support from our Afghan allies so that they would instantly be forced to surrender while at the same time he would abandon our military airfield in the dead of night so that the sun would rise on scenes of panic, desperation, and destruction. Thus our enemies in Russia would witness first-hand the sort of brilliant American military and intelligence leadership that made this such a great time to invade Ukraine.
When reporters asked Defense Spokesman John Kirby why any of this was Donald Trump’s fault, Kirby said, “I can’t answer that question right now because I’m too out of breath from chasing Biden’s helicopter and begging him not to leave me here to answer that question right now.”
White House Spokeswoman Karine-Jean-Identity-Hire did respond to reporters’ questions, however, saying, “This president takes full responsibility for blaming Donald Trump. Now it’s time to leave the past in the rearview mirror and stop even looking in the rearview mirror but instead look to the future where China is conquering Taiwan so let’s stop looking to the future also and just close our eyes and drive blindly until we hit a tree, which will be Donald Trump’s fault.”
In other news, the Democrat National Committee has announced it will showcase Democrat policies by holding their next convention in the ruins of the crime-ridden Democrat-run city of Chicago, a decision they blamed on Donald Trump.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> is the host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. A popular political satirist and Hollywood screenwriter, Klavan is also an award-winning novelist. His newest novel is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mysteries/dp/1613163517/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Strange Habit of Mind</a>, book two in the Cameron Winter Mystery series.
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

President Biden Marks The Two-Year Anniversary Of The January 6th Insurrection

Joe Biden Takes Full Responsibility For Blaming Donald Trump

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Donald Trump

John Kirby

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> promoted and celebrated transgenderism on Friday, just one day after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-proclamation-condemns-states-with-laws-targeting-transgender-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemning states</a> that have passed laws banning sex change surgeries on minors.
In honor of the “Transgender Day of Visibility,” a host of government agencies and departments issued statements pushing gender ideology urging Americans to be &#8220;allies&#8221; of trans-identifying people and decrying &#8220;discrimination.&#8221;
The Naval Sea Systems Command published an article on Friday criticizing states that have banned sex change surgeries for kids and urging Americans to be an “ally” of trans-identifying people.
“Even if you are not a part of the trans community, a great way to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility is being an ally,” a <a href="https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Media/News/SavedNewsModule/Article/3343199/international-transgender-day-of-visibility-offers-a-chance-to-support-freedom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the command center read. “There is no one way to be a &#8216;perfect&#8217; ally. The transgender community is diverse and complex, coming from every region of the world, from every racial and ethnic background, and from every faith community.”
The press release adopts woke language about gender being “assigned at birth” and claims that “some state legislatures are advancing bills that target transgender people and limit local protections.”
Over at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/health-and-human-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department for Health and Human Services</a>, Assistant Secretary for Health <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rachel-levine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Levine</a>, a man who identifies as a woman, announced in a Twitter video that the department would be flying the transgender flag on Friday over its building in Washington, D.C.
“For the second year in a row, the transgender flag is flying above our department in Washington, D.C. And this is an affirmation of the administration’s support for the transgender community and across the nation, as well as our support for evidence-based gender-affirming care,” Levine <a href="https://twitter.com/HHSGov/status/1641802646351740928" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a video.
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Today, for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TransDayofVisibility?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TransDayofVisibility</a>, the transgender pride flag is flying proudly outside the HHS Headquarters in Washington, D.C. – for the second year in a row.
Today and always, transgender health care is health care. Period. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TDOV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TDOV</a> <a href="https://t.co/6FBVVYvqAy">pic.twitter.com/6FBVVYvqAy</a>
&mdash; HHS.gov (@HHSGov) <a href="https://twitter.com/HHSGov/status/1641789392392970248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In another statement, Levine <a href="https://twitter.com/HHS_ASH/status/1641790603158536192" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that more “progress” needed to be made for minorities, immigrants, and young people who identify as transgender.
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HHS Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/xavier-becerra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xavier Becerra</a> also put out a <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBecerra/status/1641788717676232705" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet thread</a> on Friday highlighting what HHS was doing to support the “trans community.” Becerra highlighted that the department had released “guidance to state child welfare agencies that makes clear that states should use their child welfare systems to advance safety and support for LGBTQI+ youth, which includes access to gender-affirming care.”
The General Services Administration also issued a statement saying that it acknowledged “the adversity and discrimination that the #TransgenderCommunity continues to face across our Nation and recognize the strength, resilience, and joy of #transgender, #nonbinary, and #GenderNonconforming people.”
According to activist Charlotte Clymer, the Veterans Affairs Administration even recognized the day, with Secretary Denis McDonough hosting “a small breakfast in his office with trans military veterans to mark Trans Day of Visibility. We discussed service to country, the importance of community, and public policy, notably health care.”
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Early this morning, VA Secretary McDonough hosted a small breakfast in his office with trans military veterans to mark Trans Day of Visibility. We discussed service to country, the importance of community, and public policy, notably health care. (1/2) <a href="https://t.co/lcwbTw014U">pic.twitter.com/lcwbTw014U</a>
&mdash; Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1641817342366605312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The government-run website Youth.gov <a href="https://youth.gov/announcements/resource-2023-international-transgender-day-visibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> people toward resources put out by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a Left-wing group that opposes bills that segregate bathrooms by sex and related legislation.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken also put out a <a href="https://www.state.gov/transgender-day-of-visibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> saying that “transgender rights are human rights.”
“We celebrate the achievements and resilience of transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming persons around the world. We recognize their bravery in their hard-fought work for equality, inclusion, and the full recognition of their human rights, which continues to this day,” he added.
USAID recognized the day by <a href="https://twitter.com/USAID/status/1641652842887880704" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointing</a> to a program that gives taxpayer dollars to groups led by transgender-identifying individuals. Samantha Power, head of USAID, <a href="https://twitter.com/PowerUSAID/status/1641834585930575874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that she was inspired by individuals around the world who stood up to “misinformation” regarding transgenderism.
In an interview with USAID Senior LGBTQI+ Coordinator Jay Gilliam, the U.S. official, who <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/usaid-senior-lgbtqi-coordinator-jay-gilliam-talks-advancing-global/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spok</a>e at Sydney WorldPride earlier this year, said that USAID was “intentionally and thoughtfully design programs that empower all transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary individuals to be instrumental in the transformation of their own societies.”
Not to be outdone, the National Weather Service even posted a transgender flag to its Twitter account.
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To promote justice, equality, and equity for the transgender community, the National Weather Service family champions and stands alongside our transgender employees on this day and every day! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TransDayOfVisibility?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TransDayOfVisibility</a> <a href="https://t.co/mUb54CEe9o">pic.twitter.com/mUb54CEe9o</a>
&mdash; National Weather Service (@NWS) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWS/status/1641774592699035648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Navy Urges Americans To Be An ‘Ally’ As Biden Admin Promotes Transgenderism

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A resurfaced clip of transgender federal health official Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rachel-levine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Levine</a> saying an adult transition gave Levine the chance to be a father is circulating on social media amid Levine&#8217;s recent, full-throated advocacy for sex changes for minors.
In the clip Levine, who is assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), says &#8220;I have no regrets” about transitioning later in life, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11872347/Trans-health-secretary-Rachel-Levine-happy-waited-kids-change-gender.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a> reported.
Levine began a transition in 2011 at age 54 and having been married to Martha Peaslee Levine for 23 years with two adult children.
&#8220;You know, my transition was very different … I transitioned over ten years,&#8221; Levine said in the 2019 clip. &#8220;Most people don&#8217;t take that long. I have no regrets because if I had transitioned when I was younger then I wouldn&#8217;t have my children. I can&#8217;t imagine a life without my children.&#8221;
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Dr. Rachel Levine says gender-affirming care for minors has Biden administration&#39;s &#39;highest support&#39; <a href="https://t.co/IyRq3vKX9W">https://t.co/IyRq3vKX9W</a>
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At the time, Levine also said that young people aren&#8217;t &#8220;willing&#8221; to wait so long. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I was 15 today, if I would take so long,” the HHS official stated.
On Thursday, Levine promoted the Biden administration&#8217;s support for &#8220;gender affirming” care for minors, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-hhs-official-gender-affirming-care-will-be-normalized" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;I can say that you, the children that you serve, the young people that you serve, their families, and you all have support at the highest levels of the federal government,&#8221; the HHS official said during an appearance on a podcast hosted by Connecticut Children&#8217;s Hospital.
&#8220;President Biden supports you,&#8221; Levine added. &#8220;I, as the Assistant Secretary for Health, will support you, and I talk about this topic everywhere I go to get the word out.&#8221;
Levin also slammed critics of medical professionals who advocate for minor gender reassignments, labeling the attacks &#8220;ideologically and politically motivated.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m a positive and optimistic person, and I choose to be positive, optimistic,&#8221; the HHS official said. &#8220;And I think that the wheel will turn on this, and I think it is not going to be politically advantageous; it wasn&#8217;t particularly in 2022, and so I think that as we look to all the different elections in 2024, I think the next two years are going to be challenging, but I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that and that this issue won&#8217;t be politically and socially such a minefield.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-persisted-childrens-book-for-little-girls-will-feature-trans-identifying-rachel-levines-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;She Persisted&#8217;: Children&#8217;s Book For Little Girls Will Feature Trans-Identifying Rachel Levine&#8217;s Story</a>

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Trans HHS Official Has ‘No Regrets,’ Glad Waited To ‘Transition’ To Have ‘My Children’ In Throwback Clip

Trans HHS Official Has ‘No Regrets,’ Says Glad Waited To 'Transition’ To Have 'My Children' In Throwback Clip

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Dr. Rachel Levine, the transgender Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), saluted “gender-affirming” care, saying that in the near future, such practices will be normalized.
Levine, who stated on the Connecticut Children&#8217;s Grand Rounds podcast that “gender-affirming” care had the “highest support” of the Biden administration, slammed the harsh criticism of medical professionals who advocate for “gender-affirming” care, which can include such radical practices as removing genitals.
“I think that these attacks are ideologically and politically motivated,” Levine charged, ignoring the profound concern expressed by many people that such care damages children. “I think they’re being done for primarily political purposes throughout the country.”
Levine claimed that support for “gender-affirming“ care would blossom, declaring, “I&#8217;m a positive and optimistic person, and I choose to be positive, optimistic. And I think that the wheel will turn on this, and I think it is not going to be politically advantageous; it wasn’t particularly in 2022, and so I think that as we look to all the different elections in 2024, I think the next two years are going to be challenging but I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that and that this issue won’t be politically and socially such a minefield.”
Levin attacked states that have passed laws restricting abortion or “gender-affirming” care, snapping, “You live in a state, in Connecticut, where it is unlikely that those regressive, negative and discriminatory laws will pass and be implemented.”
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), an anesthesiologist who is the <a href="https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/39fed/06ushse/html/rep.html">only</a> Republican member of Maryland&#8217;s congressional delegation and serves as Co-Chair of the Pro-Life Caucus, said it&#8217;s “reprehensible for a government official—let alone the Assistant U.S. Secretary of HHS to promote the genital mutilation of minors as becoming a standard practice in the U.S.”
“As a physician, I was proud to co-sponsor the &#8216;Protect Children&#8217;s Innocence Act&#8217; which would prohibit harmful medical procedures used to treat gender dysphoria in transgender minors, including puberty blockers and surgeries in which minors alter their body to correspond to a sex that differs from their biological sex,” Harris stated, as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-rachel-levine-changing-kids-genders-soon-fully-embraced-wheels-turn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported.
“Many pediatricians, particularly pediatric endocrinologists, have expressed serious concerns about the use of puberty blockers, hormone blockers, and sex transition surgeries in minors,” Harris added. “These doctors know that these medications and procedures can impact children’s bone growth, fertility, and risk of breast and prostate cancer. Meanwhile, HHS has pressured providers to provide this care or else face discrimination lawsuits. We must protect our children.”

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Transgender HHS Official: ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care Will Be Normalized

Transgender HHS Official: ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care For Minors Will Be Normalized

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A new children&#8217;s book series geared toward girls between the ages of 6-9 will feature the story of trans-identifying <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rachel-levine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Levine</a> overcoming &#8220;obstacles.&#8221;
In the &#8220;chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds,&#8221; a book titled &#8220;She Persisted: Rachel Levin” by author Lisa Bunker tells the story of how the assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) persisted &#8220;throughout her life,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/childrens-book-series-inspiring-women-publish-biography-transgender-rachel-levine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported.
&#8220;As the first openly transgender government official to hold an office that requires Senate confirmation, the first openly transgender four-star officer in uniform service, and the first female four-star admiral in the commissioned corps, Rachel Levine faced many obstacles throughout her life,&#8221; the book&#8217;s description reads. &#8220;But she persisted through them all and showed kids of all genders that they can succeed in their dreams too.&#8221;
The chapter book series was inspired by Chelsea Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;She Persisted&#8221; picture books and includes stories about people like United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and environmental activist Greta Thunberg, the outlet noted.
In an introduction from Clinton, she called the books the &#8220;perfect choice for kids who love learning and teachers who want to bring inspiring women into their curriculum,” and provides a &#8220;list of ways that readers can follow in Rachel Levine&#8217;s footsteps and make a difference!&#8221;
Screenshots of some of the pages of the children&#8217;s book appeared on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/She-Persisted-Rachel-Lisa-Bunker/dp/0593529030/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2N2LEI8H0A9G7&amp;keywords=She+Persisted%3A+Rachel+Levine%22&amp;qid=1677268275&amp;sprefix=she+persisted+rachel+levine+%2Caps%2C146&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon</a>, with one paragraph that reads, “And Rachel was born transgender or trans for short. That means she was born with a boy body, but on the inside, in her mind and in her heart, she was a girl.&#8221;
Many people on social media slammed the idea of a children&#8217;s book featuring a story about a biological male &#8220;chopping off&#8221; his body parts, with one saying our &#8220;daughters deserve better.&#8221;
“‘She&#8217; Persisted in telling gaslighting lies about how sterilizing and chopping off the healthy body parts of minors was lifesaving and supported by science,&#8221; one person <a href="https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1628539794736222208?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
Another <a href="https://twitter.com/Amante_delCane/status/1629199394791911424?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;This absolutely blew my mind. &#8216;Rachel&#8217; Levine included in a series entitled, &#8216;She persisted&#8217; Imagine including a bio man, who only &#8216;became’ a woman recently (in his mid-50s no less) over so many other women who have truly persisted. The gender ideology cult is just so [throwing up emoji.&#8221;
While another person <a href="https://twitter.com/Austen12341/status/1628642994747502594?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, &#8220;That Levine dude is in the SHE persisted chapter books for little girls. This would have been a lovely series for girls, Bethany Hamilton was and is my daughter’s hero, but this is maddening that he is included. It is a cruelty to gaslight girls this way.&#8221;
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Biden&#39;s trans diversity hire Rachel Levine featured in She Persisted children&#39;s book series—our daughters deserve better<a href="https://t.co/AQvPslNr3w">https://t.co/AQvPslNr3w</a>
&mdash; Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) <a href="https://twitter.com/libbyemmons/status/1629192549989552129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Are you kidding me?!
&quot;She Persisted&quot;?! I think they mean &quot;He&#39;s a White Man Wearing A Trans Crown So Gets Whatever He Wants&quot;.
He didn&#39;t persist at anything but his own misogyny and entitlement. <a href="https://t.co/mM5RlNA2U7">https://t.co/mM5RlNA2U7</a>
&mdash; Jess 💜🤺💚 (@anonotanon) <a href="https://twitter.com/anonotanon/status/1628549548212879361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;She Persisted: Rachel Levine&#8221; hits bookshelves June 6, 2023.

‘She Persisted’: Children’s Book For Little Girls Will Feature Trans-Identifying Rachel Levine’s Story

Children’s Book For Little Girls Will Feature Trans-Identifying Rachel Levine's Story

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The <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> account belonging to The Christian Post was restored on Saturday following a nine-month <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspension</a> over a tweet calling Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rachel-levine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Levine</a>, who claims identity as a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> woman, a “man.”
The move comes two months after <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> officially took control of Twitter following a $44 billion acquisition deal. Among the first high-profile accounts to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/babylon-bee-ceo-we-now-have-more-twitter-followers-than-ever-because-we-stubbornly-refused-to-bend-the-knee-for-tyrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restored</a> was the page belonging to the Babylon Bee, a Christian satire outlet that posted an <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bees-man-of-the-year-is-rachel-levine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> that jokingly designated Levine as “Man of the Year.”
An email from Twitter sent in March likewise <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/twitter-takes-action-against-christian-post-over-rachel-levine-tweet.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> The Christian Post, a conservative evangelical publication, of “hateful conduct” and warned that officials had “temporarily limited some” features of the account, including the ability to tweet and like posts from other users. The original tweet read “USA Today names Rachel Levine, a man, among its ‘Women of the Year.’”
The Christian Post <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristianPost/status/1609223724456374280" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on its restored account that the outlet “refused to retract” an objectively true statement because of their journalistic commitments and their religious convictions.
“We understand our ethical obligation to provide accuracy over narrative and truth over opinion. Calling a man a man is a scientific truth, not opinion. Editorializing facts is called commentary, opinion, or, in some cases, dishonesty,” a thread posted to the account said. “But more importantly, as Christians, our primary responsibility is to God and advancing His truth. This is why we refused to capitulate on our biblical standards of truth by bowing down to the immoral demands of Twitter’s former leadership.”
“In this case, obedience to God meant judgment by man,” The Christian Post continued, alluding to the words of the apostle Peter when he was told to stop preaching the gospel. “As living sacrifices to God, this was a small but necessary line for us to draw.”
The outlet thanked Musk for his commitment to free speech and vowed to “continue speaking biblical truth, never in hate, always in love, and always to inform our readers to the best of our abilities.” Musk has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-elon-musk-explains-why-he-bought-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously stated</a> that he acquired Twitter in order to ensure that a section of the public square is free from censorship and open to dialogue.
Americans with conservative and religious viewpoints have faced censorship from social media companies, particularly with respect to their stances on contentious social issues. Libs of TikTok, an account that focuses on Left-wing activists, was temporarily <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-locked-out-of-twitter-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">locked out</a> of Twitter several months ago for a “hateful conduct” warning. Allie Beth Stuckey, a commentator and podcast host, was suspended from Twitter on two separate occasions, once for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-suspends-conservative-pundit-allie-beth-stuckey-for-stating-that-transgender-weightlifter-is-a-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that a transgender woman competing as an Olympic weightlifter is “still a man” and again for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/allie-beth-stuckey-suspended-from-twitter-after-challenging-fox-news-segment-that-went-viral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denouncing</a> a Fox News segment that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-a-complete-betrayal-at-fox-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> a family claiming their child was transgender.
Musk, a vocal fan of the Babylon Bee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-contacted-the-babylon-bee-before-buying-9-of-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consulted</a> with the company’s leadership before launching his bid to acquire the platform, which also refused to delete its post. “We now have more followers, reach, and revenue than ever before,” Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said after the outlets’ account was restored, “not because we acquiesced, but because we stubbornly refused to bend the knee for tyrants.”

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‘We Refused To Capitulate On Our Biblical Standards’: Christian News Outlet Restored To Twitter After Months Of Suspension

Christian Post Restored To Twitter After Months Of Suspension

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U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-secretary-levine-dubs-self-agencys-first-female-four-star-officer-in-bizarre-video-highlighting-diversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Levine</a>, who identifies as a transgender female, advocated for Big Tech censorship of “misinformation” related to “gender-affirming care,&#8221; a surfaced video shows.
Levine, the first transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, has in the past advocated for transgender &#8220;care&#8221; of minors, which opponents highlight is often irreversible and damaging to children.
“There is substantial misinformation about gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals,” Levine said back in May during a presentation before the Federation of State Medical Boards in New Orleans, the Washington Times <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/26/dr-rachel-levine-slammed-after-calling-big-tech-cl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a>.
“We need to get our voices in the public eye, and we know how effective our medical community can be talking to communities, whether it’s at town halls, schools, conversations with others, and we need to use our clinicians’ voice to collectively advocate for our tech companies to create a healthier, cleaner information environment,” Levine continued.
The comments resurfaced as new so-called Twitter Files uncovered government agencies like the FBI working with Twitter to crack down on misinformation surrounding a number of issues.
Popular account Libs of TikTok captioned the video clip, &#8220;Rachel Levine calls for big tech to censor &#8216;health misinformation&#8217; impacting &#8216;gender affirming care.&#8217; Says &#8216;gender affirming care&#8217; has a positive value for youth.&#8221;
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“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,” Levine said in July on MSNBC, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-asst-hhs-sec-lets-empower-children-to-get-gender-affirmation-treatment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Levine last year <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-secretary-levine-dubs-self-agencys-first-female-four-star-officer-in-bizarre-video-highlighting-diversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> the title of the “first female four-star officer” in a video boasting about “diversity” for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“I am honored to serve as the first female four-star officer of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the first openly transgender four-star officer to serve across any of the eight uniformed services,” the official said.
“This is a momentous occasion,” Levine continued in the address post-swearing-in. “And I am honored to take this role, for the impact that I can make and for the historic nature of what it symbolizes.”
“Diversity makes us stronger,” the secretary asserted. “Each person has a different perspective and different strengths that they bring to make the whole community stronger. The time is now for our country to continue to move the bar forward for diversity. And I am proud to wear this uniform and answer that call.”
Levine went on to promise a commitment to “follow the science to build a healthier future, where we work to create an environment in which no one is left behind.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-secretary-levine-dubs-self-agencys-first-female-four-star-officer-in-bizarre-video-highlighting-diversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trans Secretary Levine Dubs Self Agency’s ‘First Female Four-Star Officer’ In Bizarre Video Highlighting ‘Diversity’</a>

Top Biden Official Pushed Big Tech To Censor ‘Misinformation’ On Trans ‘Care’ For Minors, Video Shows

Top Biden Official Rachel Levine Pushed Big Tech Censorship Related To Trans 'Care' For Minors, Video Shows

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A new public records request reveals how millions of taxpayer dollars have funded controversial &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; medical treatments for trans-identifying minors in Pennsylvania. 
The <a href="https://pafamily.org/about/">Pennsylvania Family Institute</a>, a non-profit representing family values, filed a right-to-know request with the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services to find out exactly how much taxpayer money has been spent on medically transitioning children and adolescents in the state. The request revealed that since 2015 more than $16.7 million in tax dollars have been spent on puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, and gender-related surgeries for minors.
“When Gov. [Tom] Wolf took office, he unilaterally changed state policy to cover things like double mastectomies to remove healthy breasts from minor girls and irreversible experimental hormones for children,” said Emily Kreps with PA Family Institute. “The same drugs used to chemically castrate convicted sex offenders are being funded by tax dollars for minors. This type of ‘care’ is happening right now at major institutions like CHOP, Penn State Health and<a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1560027417456025601"> UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh</a>—especially to<a href="https://twitter.com/MegBeileen/status/1575540861462528001"> children in foster care</a>.”
In 2015, Democrat Governor Tom Wolf took office, nominating Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender pediatrician, as Pennsylvania&#8217;s physician general. Before becoming the Assistant Secretary of Health to the Biden administration, Levine worked for six years to advance &#8220;LGBTQ rights,&#8221; including access to &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care. Levine has pressed for insurance coverage for medical gender transition at the state and federal levels. From 2015 to 2021, Pennsylvania saw a nearly 5000% increase in spending on &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care for minors under 18.
The request included data from Fee-For-Service (FFS) paid claims, Physical Health (PH) HealthChoices paid encounters, and Behavioral Health (BH) HealthChoices paid encounters available in Pennsylvania DHS&#8217; PROMISe from January 1, 2015, through October 21, 2022.
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In 2021, Pennsylvania spent more than $3.9 million on services pertaining to “sex reassignment and transition related services and drugs” for minors. This figure is up from $2.7 million in 2020, which saw little increase from 2019, most likely attributed to the pandemic, when outpatient services and elective procedures were put on hold. From January 1, 2022, to October 21, 2022, the state spent $3.7 million on medical interventions for &#8220;trans&#8221; minors and is on course to exceed previous years. 
2015 saw the lowest spending for transitioning minors at $78,000 before &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care was <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/05/18/2016-11458/nondiscrimination-in-health-programs-and-activities">adopted</a> as national policy as part of Obamacare. On July 18, 2016, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services <a href="https://transequality.org/blog/pennsylvania-medicaid-removes-trans-health-exclusions">announced</a> that the state Medicaid program would begin to cover all &#8220;medically necessary gender transition services.&#8221; 2016 saw a 755% increase from 2015 at $668,000.
“This level of state-endorsed harm upon children is reprehensible,” said Alexis Sneller of the PA Family Institute. “While we knew the Wolf administration was funding services related to these irreversible procedures on minors, now seeing the exact numbers–millions spent towards these detrimental acts–is still shocking.”
Dr. Nadia Dowshen, co-founder of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Gender Clinic, <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-chop-gender-clinic-co-founder-praises-rachel-levines-initiatives-for-medical-transition-of-minors">praised</a> Levine during a 2018 lecture for being a &#8220;really wonderful advocate&#8221; for &#8220;work[ing] to ensure young people have coverage of these medications,&#8221; noting how expensive puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, and gender-related surgeries can be.
A young Pennsylvania woman named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-met-with-vitriol-by-transgender-activists-shares-her-story">KC Miller</a> had a viral video on Twitter describing the significant hair loss and receding hairline she now has after five years of taking testosterone. Miller adopted a transgender identity at 16 and was referred to a local gender clinic by CHOP, where she was prescribed the hormone just after her 17th birthday. Only six months after the injections started, she received a double mastectomy to remove her breasts. At age 21, she announced that she wanted to detransition after realizing that &#8220;social contagion&#8221; greatly influenced her initial decision. 
“Gender-affirming” care discourages medical professionals from questioning a minor’s self-reported transgender identity or exploring possible underlying factors that may be causing their dysphoria. The standard protocol for gender affirmation is administering puberty blockers, followed by cross-sex hormones, and then surgery, if desired. Proponents generally argue that parental approval should not be a requirement and reject medical “gatekeeping.”
None of these U.S.-based organizations that endorse &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care have done systematic reviews of the evidence, while arguably more leftist European countries like <a href="https://segm.org/segm-summary-sweden-prioritizes-therapy-curbs-hormones-for-gender-dysphoric-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>, <a href="https://genderreport.ca/finland-strict-guidelines-for-treating-gender-dysphoria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finland</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a> have. After reviewing the evidence for the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in treating pediatric gender dysphoria, health authorities in all three countries have decided to abandon the “gender-affirming” model, finding the costs outweigh the benefits.

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