(The Center Square) – A U.S. House Committee has launched a probe of the Biden-Harris administration after reports that the White House pressured the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, a leading professional nonprofit association, to remove the age limits for transgender surgeries and drugs for minors.
Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., chair of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services, sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra opening the probe, which requests all documentation and communication around the alleged “political interference” and whether HHS has pressured other medical groups to alter its guidance.
Critics have raised concerns that those surgeries, which do irreversible changes to the body, are often regretted. They argue that children cannot really understand or consent to the procedures, which include removing breasts or male genitalia and rendering boys and girls permanently unable to have children of their own one day.
“We are concerned that HHS officials, acting in their official capacity, inappropriately applied pressure for changes to international pediatric medical standards,” the letter said. “Officials applied this inappropriate pressure by urging for the removal of age limits that expands the pool of children and adolescents recommended for irreversible gender transition surgical procedures.”
Pointing to reporting from The New York Times, the committee said in its letter that WPATH published a draft of its recommendations online which included age limits of 14 for hormone drugs, “age 15 for transgender mastectomies, age 16 for transgender breast augmentation and facial surgery, and age 17 for transgender genital surgeries and hysterectomies.”
Emails reportedly show that Biden administration officials, including Admiral Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for HHS who is a transgender woman, pressured the group to remove the age limits altogether. McClain’s committee said emails show WPATH staff initially did not want to do so but gave in to the pressure.
“Despite WPATH’s initial minimum age recommendations, Admiral Levine and [Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Sarah] Boateng’s clear, concise instructions to remove age recommendations from SOC-8 led to their ultimate removal, notwithstanding the Biden Administration’s now public statement that it opposes providing such surgeries to minors,” the letter said.
HHS did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.
“The Biden Administration’s advocacy for expanding the pool of vulnerable children subjected to life-altering procedures they may later regret is reprehensible,” the letter said. “Emails indicating that this advocacy was done for political advantage – possibly to satisfy extremist elements of its base – is even more outrageous.
“Dr. Marci Bowers, the president of WPATH, has gone so far as to dismiss the responsibility of medical providers for procedures performed on child patients who she has said must ‘own’ final transition decisions and “should not be blaming the clinician or the people who helped guide them” for later regrets about irreversible surgeries,” the letter added.
McClain’s subcommittee and the Federal Workforce Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, also have an investigation into reports that healthcare providers have been fraudulently billing Medicaid for pediatric transgender work.
” A U.S. House Committee has launched a probe of the Biden-Harris administration after reports that the White House pressured the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, a leading professional nonprofit association, to remove the age limits for transgender surgeries and drugs for minors.“
Now this immoral, pedophile, satanic Democrat Party cult wants to perform transgender surgeries on 2 year old children.
I’d love to know why the hell there’s even a WORLD COUNCIL On this nonsense!
The first instincts of a straight man mind who sees these freaks is the innate urreisistable urge to neuter it or kill it before it can breed. They really do need to lay low for their own safety. Neutering themselves might just save their own lives and avoid the basic laws of nature.
When all these “advocates” have all had transgender surgery, then maybe I’ll listen to them. Not
AND give it to them, without any anethstic..
the freak show administration.
who cares as long as they are woke and incompetent
If they would just bring back the Political Pinheaded freaks, SChumer sideshow geeks and glorified lawn trolls like James Carville that ruled under Clinton and Obama, at least they put on a good entertainment show and made us laugh, rather than outright belly up and barf at the sight of them, or make your skin crawl when offered a regendered version of a Kennedy Dodd waitress sandwich, with Kamala in the middle of Pelosi and Joe, whose misgendered children created all end up looking like Rachel Levine.
“the White House pressured the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, a leading professional nonprofit association…”
It appears that The White House was doing the leading. But leading in what? Who are they leading? Where are they heading?
AND How did this ‘non-profit’ get so BIG to where they could bager the white house to do their bidding??
Where are they heading ? HELL if I know .
If this isn’t proof that we are fighting a good verse evil battle in this country I don’t know what would be. Democrats push for unfettered abortion, child sex mutilation, racist DEI policies, they align themselves with antisemites, allow criminals to victimize people over and over, and promote racial division and tension. These policies are straight from hell and if Satan was running with a “D” by his name Democrats would gleefully vote for him.
Heck, if stalin, mao and hitler all had a D by their name, the dems would vote for them!
What’s scary about these loons on the left is their apparent lack of awareness and self-awareness.
While this is all raw pursuit of power right now, it won’t end well for any of them, or us.
At the rate we’re going, the radical Muslim hordes will get here, take power then, watch out.
The LGBTQI+ crowd will, most certainly, be killed — folks with disabilities might be on the chopping block as well. Women’s rights will be a thing of the past. There’ll be no freedom of speech, press, religion, assembhly, right to petition the government, to bear arms, etc. What’s left of our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Gettysburg Address will be swept away like so much dust and America and her ideals will be consigned to the dust-bin of obscurity.
When that day arrives, and I fear it will, the folks who think Trump is an existential threat to our republic now, will be praying for a Trump, or Reagan and those prayers might fall on deaf ears.
This insanity needs to be nipped in the bud, right now, and we need to get back to our founding principles, or we’ll surely suffer this fate.
Vote Trump!
There’s days i honestly think maybe we NEED something like that to happen, to weed out all the libtards…