Sen. Rand Paul was criticized for using anti-trans talking points during a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for transgender Health and Human Services nominee Dr. Rachel Levine.
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The Republican senator quizzed Levine about her views on hormone treatment for trans teens and compared gender reassignment surgery to castration and female genital mutilation.
“You’re willing to let a minor take things that prevent their puberty, and you think they get that back?” Paul asked Levine. “You give a woman testosterone enough that she grows a beard. Do you think she’s going to go back looking like a woman when you stop the testosterone?”
Paul (R-Ky.) said he was “alarmed” that Levine was not advocating that teens should be barred from deciding to undergo treatments to change their gender.
“I’m alarmed that you’re not saying they should be prevented from making decisions to amputate their breasts or genitalia,” Paul said. “We have always said that minors do not have full rights.”
Levine, who is vying to be Assistant Secretary for Health, refused to directly answer Paul’s questions, saying only that transgender medicine is a “complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care.”
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If confirmed by the Senate, Levine would become the highest-ranking openly trans official in U.S. history.
Paul (R-Ky.) says he will vote against Levine because he disagrees with her position on treating trans teens.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) chastised Paul for failing to treat Levine with respect and wasting the committee’s time with “ideological and harmful misrepresentations.”
Democratic lawmakers and LGBT rights advocates accused the Republican of indulging in barely disguised anti-trans bigotry.
“He explicitly attacked vulnerable trans youth for his own perceived political gain and it was a disgrace,” said Ruben Gonzales of the LGBTQ Victory Institute.
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what a sick nation we have become things our parents stood firm on like homosexuality and communism have fallen to the wayside
by political correctness and FEAR of government reprisal.
i dont care what the politicians of satan say or do but i do care what god almighty says.
AMEN!!!!!
The schools are assembling these peoples minds wrong. The teachers are making clones of themselves and coming out with idiots. Except for a few that flunked libs 101 class
And imo, its partially the PARENTS fault, for ALLOWING IT to happen for years, and NOT STANDING The hell up, and saying “NOT IN MY SCHOOL!”
Romans 1: 32 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Hummm……. This sounds like the nature of the dishonorable, immoral Democrats.
And to think all the democrats tell everyone they’re good Catholics. What a joke! They all pray to Lucifer.
EVERY time they claim they are good christians/catholics, i’d LOVE TO SEE GOD send down a blue bolt from heaven, to SMITE THEM WHERE THEY STAND…
That thing is One Sick Puppy! Totally and Mentally ILL.
Just think how much SICKER IN THE HEAD the voters were, who PUT IT into office!
The Democrat circus has now turned into Congressional freak , geek and bearded lady side-show. It’s part one of the Democrat “Trilogy of terror” that leaves you more squeamish than that Karen laBck episode with the voodoo doll, or the cat that steals your baby’s breath. Have you seen this thing actually speak, and not get creeped out? RINO’s and Trump offended others need to ask themselves ,”Was your hate for Trump worth the edification over you of this confused insane thing that attempts to recreate itself into a graven image of a woman”? God is watching us from a distance. You are who you vote for,,,,is this really YOU? Who and what you turn to in times of crisis determines who and what you worship…..is this it? Fair question Huh?
Thank God for GOP common sense, children are not equiped to make such final dic
Note, they RAISED the age to buy guns and smokes, to 21, cause they felt ‘kids are NOT MATURE ENOUGH till them.
BUT WHEN IT comes to sex change and voting, they are ‘mature enough at 16 or earlier.
MAKE YOUR mind up. Either all are mature enough at 16 for EVERYTHING AGE RELATED< or all are mature enough at 21. STOP with this three tier age ****.
The Democrat Party Policies are rotting the US . To Nominate Transgender Dr.Rachel Levine for Assistant Secretary for Health who calls genital, and breast mutilation on children and teens Gender Medicine is insane. For our Educators to teach this by Democrat Policy Legislation is sad indeed. Sen. Rand Paul was right for telling the truth , and calling this legislated Democrat Party Transgender Policy genital mutilation of our youth wrong and it is not reversible .
Before any fence is removed , common sense once paused long enough to find out why it was placed there in the first place. History shows that it is easier to destroy a nation than rebuild it. John Adams the second President said ,” Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
This abomination needs to be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity given what “it” did to all those poor souls in PA nursing homes. “It” is just as guilty as Cuomo, maybe not in covering things up, but certainly in condemning poor helpless people to their death…while ensuring “it’s” mother was safe and out of the nursing home. Is there a greater hypocrisy? And Xiden has the unmitigated gall to put this person forth as a member of his administration? Unbelievable. The Senate needs to reject this candidate and remand “it” over to DOJ for prosecution.
Neuter it before it can breed and spread the diminishing Democrat DNA among a formerly strong American people. At least sew its mouth shut.
He murdered many people. He saved his mother by moving her out of harms way. Either he is a moron or knew the consequences of his actions. He knew.
OF course “IT” new.. That’s WHY “IT” removed “it’s” mother, out of harms way
At what point do we stop the government from dictating our obedience to GOD, our religious beliefs or our morality?
One’s relationship with GOD is entirely between them and GOD.
U.S. Constitution, Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Lev 20:13
13 “‘If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Rom 1:24-27
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Collectivists are Collectivists because they don’t respect the sovereignty of the individual. This makes the Constitution, specifically the First Amendment, Enemy No. 1–and the only obstacle to supplanting it wholesale, the Second Amendment.
At what point do we let these cowardly i individuals NOT answer questions and be allowed to be confirmed. When are the republicans except for a small handful STAND UP going to go out there and play offense against these radicals. it’s time to really stand up for morals and values and DO something. Take them to Court, block them , do whatever you have to do to stop them. The republicans complain and DO NOTHING. This is why many don’t even trust the Republican Party especially the establishment.
Too true. ALL to often it seems they ‘stand strong’ on QUESTIONING the person, but CAVE IN and appoint them anyway..
God calls this perversion. He is a man dressed as a woman. This entire administration is a perversion from top to bottom.
The Executive, Legislative and Judiciary are all corrupt. Pretending this will get better is a devil’s lie.
Changing genders will not change what God has ordained. They can lie, twist the truth, change genders, cut off genitalia, give shots, dress effeminately, but God ordained what He ordained and it is immutable what He has ordered. HIs Word is immutable no matter what they try to do. He laughs at them from His heaven and His justice cannot sleep forever.
AMERICA IS IN GRAVE DANGER! WAKE UP!!
Thursday, March 12, 2015. Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
“Joe Biden went on to assure the pro-LGBT crowd that even though the Obama administration cannot enforce a thought police, people who stand for their religious convictions are in the process of being wiped out — as the Obama White House’s homosexual agenda continues to proliferate across the nation. Carson and others who ascribe to the biblical view of homosexuality should be eradicated from the planet in the name of “equality” and “tolerance.” ”
Have you ever wondered why Tinkerbell PinocchiObama and his butt buddy Biden are so obsessed with the encouragement, protection and supporting the LGBTQ lifestyle??
Because they are perverts themselves!!
This guy Levine may be quite intelligent, however he does not acknowledge the immutability of DNA. As such, he is epitomizing and promoting a harmful idea that there is such a thing as real transgenderism. This perverted ideology is promoted to adults and children as fact when (in fact) it is a mental aberration. If you have any faith in G-d you realize that such thoughts are not exception to male and female, but sins against humanity. A definite NO to his appointment in government. The government is to serve the will of the people, not the other way around.
Joseph C. Moore [USN Ret.]
IT may be ‘smart’ book wise. BUT IN NO WAY would i say, IT was intelligent!
When science and God are both testifying to reality and Truth it is worse than irresponsible to disseminate misinformation.
It’s “detrimental to our democracy”.
Dr. Rachel Levine, another communist radical that will be approved for “the moderate”, Joe Stalin Mao Biden’s cabinet. Yep, being communist is “moderate”, according to the liberals on Fox News! The world is upside down, as evil permeates our society!
That Thing is one sicko. Need to stop this gene pool NOW. Sickening.
She shouldn’t be confirmed. She is not qualified. What more need be said?
It looks just like my Junior HIgh School Principal who got caught dressed as a woman playing Piano in Lou Gage’s bar in Illinois back in the 60s. It left town two steps ahead of the tar and feathers. Today thanks to the Democrats it gets elevated into Federal power postitions to further confuse our youth to descrate their bodies which were designed to be Temples to house the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit cannot live within an unclean Temple, and thamks to the Secular Liberals they are becoming less and less available. Nothing holy about what dwells within this confused Philistine. Just how far is Joe willing to go off the rails, and off the track for the very kind of power that history has proven to be fleeting at best? If this is the new Democrat created majority, we are all in for a fall.
“What more need be said?” Well, “she” isn’t a “She”. It makes no difference if he has had his penis removed and has taken hormones to repress his masculine features. Biologically he is still a he that has mental and emotional issues.
COMMENTfinal thing to say, he is not a “she”.
STOP calling IT a she, for one thing… IT IS A HE.. Even IF they get all the sex change ops and hormones, THEIR DNA IS STILL that of a man!
Any truly successful executive knows the keys to success is surrounding yourself with the very best people you can find, then delegate. This one needs to be shown the gate. He makes Biden look like a fool.
Hard to avoid.
Not hard to do! WE all knew biden was a fool, a long time ago.
Very strange critters indeed. Very sly but lacking the intelligence to pass as humans and the capacity to meld into a civilized society such as ours.
I defy anyone in the administration to state (with a straight face) that this “individual” was chosen for ANY reason other than being a TRANNY.
That man is to ugly to be a woman.
He is too ugly to be a human.
THAT Was the ONLY qualification the dems wanted, for the hhs..
I’m liking Rand Paul more all the time. We gotta fight this stuff – our kids are not mature enough to make these kind of life and body-altering decisions. Democrats continually force these kinds of issues down our throats threatening to “get on board” or face the consequences. Enough! Dr. Levine should not be confirmed. She is not qualified nor deserving of this position after her actions with her own mother during covid.
Please, HE is not qualified.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) chastised Paul for failing to treat Levine with respect and wasting the committee’s time with “ideological and harmful misrepresentations.”
Giving credence to Patty Murray is a waste of time. The dumbest person in D.C.! It’s hard to believe but Seattle’s average IQ went up three points when she headed east. It’s a solid 8 today.
Dr. Rand Paul is correct and it is Patty Murry that is a total idiot that is just wasting everyone’s time with her pushing of her false narratives and her uninformed opinions. She should resign or be impeached and thrown out of office. What a moron!
There are now 3 genders, he, she, and it. Dr Levine is #3.
“He explicitly attacked vulnerable trans youth for his own perceived political gain and it was a disgrace,” . What’s a disgrace is any adult thinking it’s OK for a minor to make life altering decisions. If a full grown adult makes those decisions that’s between them and their God (or Satan) but Rand Paul was talking about minors, even preschoolers. We don’t let kids decide what to have for dinner and Levine wants them to decide to pretend to be the opposite sex and take medication or have surgery to do it. Do we really want someone to be second in command of HHS that obviously denies the science of biology. As an aside, has anyone ever seen Rachel Levine and democratic strategist Doug Schoen in the same room? Look him up. 🙂
I agree. IT IS a disgrace, ANYONE can condone mistreating kids, by punishing EVERY OTHER KID around, by forcing them to ‘accept and condone’ this mental illness…
ITS SICKER by forcing parents to have to get their kid, the hormone therapy/blockers etc..
Absolutely, children should not be encouraged to alter themselves surgically until they are of the age that they can legally consent to their surgery. While transgender medicine may be a “complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care”, Sen. Paul’s question was specifically aimed toward the care of children. Let the transgender medical field perform their research on adults.
The reason they keep claiming ‘IS nuanced”, is BECAUSE THEY CANNOT answer the simple question of “SHOW ME THE PROOF in medical scans, DNA and MRI’s etc, that ‘transgenerism is ANYTHING BUT a mental derangement…
There is only 2 genders. On the left they’re referred to as Dumb and Dumber.
What is this deviant’s (pronouns HE, HIM, HIS) real name. Stop calling HIM “Rachel”.
I share a closet with my wife too. This is why I never dress with the lights off.
From all i’ve seen on shows like house hunters, you’re LUCKY to have an area in the master closet to house your clothes.. Most couples it seems that entire space, is the Wife’s domain, the husband can go get dressed down the hall..
Decoding doublespeak:
“complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care.”
complex and nuanced field: We have no idea what we are doing and we are betting that you don’t know either.
robust research: We’ll try anything and everything including blood letting and human sacrifice.
standards of care: ‘Cause that’s how we roll….This week.
What the hell is that thing in the picture? A man? a Woman? a alien? its horrible take it away please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s uglier than the Thing (from carpenters The thing film)..
NO answers ——– NO job ——– NEXT candidate,