(The Center Square) – U.S. Health and Human Services’ transgender policies toward children are under scrutiny, the latest federal agency to face Congressional questions over how taxpayer dollars may be pushing the issue and even funding surgeries.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., ranking member on the Subcommittee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra raising concerns about the agency’s work to “promote life altering changes to young children.”
“I write to conduct oversight of the federal government’s use of taxpayer funds to promote radical gender ideology and the medical transition of children using pharmaceutical or surgical interventions,” the letter said. “The Biden Administration appears to be encouraging any child, who does not conform to perceptions of masculine or feminine stereotypes, to alter his or her body through potentially irreversible medical or surgical intervention. Instead of funding these life-altering drugs and procedures, our government should be promoting policies to protect vulnerable children – who cannot consent.”
HHS is the latest but not the only federal agency to come under scrutiny for its transgender policies toward children. As The Center Square previously reported, The U.S. State Department’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan also came under Congressional scrutiny for including taxpayer-funded “gender transition care” for employees as well as their children.
Mace said that other western nations have raised concerns about the transgender drugs and surgeries, but that the Biden administration has gone all in.
The letter explicitly requests information to what extent taxpayer dollars are being used to fund these drugs and surgeries.
“HHS, under the guise of ‘gender affirming care,’ now promotes medical interventions such as drugs designed to block puberty, opposite-sex hormones to transition children – both of which do not have FDA approval for use in children’s gender care – and even surgical interventions to remove or alter the gender specific anatomy,” the letter said. “HHS also falsely promotes some of these interventions as ‘reversible’ or ‘partially reversible’ despite potential, serious long-term physical and mental health risks, complications, and regret. The American medical institutions simply do not have enough data to understand outcomes. Children who suffer from mental health conditions are least likely to engage in sound decision making which is where parental control should intervene.
“It is imperative that the American people understand HHS’s role and the use of federal taxpayer money to promote a radical gender ideology that is harming children in our country,” the letter adds.
This gender modification BS is a sad testament to our healthcare system—our education system000and the country as a whole. And the idiots pushing this nonsense should be hung.
HHS, seems YET ANOTHER bloated swamp dwelling govt dept, that just needs to get SHUT THE HELL DOWN.
If an ADULT (over 18) wants to change their gender, that’s their prerogative….. Just don’t send me the bill, like the tax-payer funded “Student Loan *Forgiveness*”. I never went to college. Why the hell should I be paying someone else’s loan who probably Majored in 16th Century Russian Literature, only to discover after graduation, much to their dismay, there’s not much of a demand for it. DUH!
I am an American Taxpayer. These people of political criminal intent have no right in using my tax money to make me a co-conspirator in crimes against humanity and the basic laws of nature. Another reason the Supreme court should have cut down Obamacare like a contaminating diseased tree in the forest contributing to destroying American’s ability to Self-govern at the personal level in more government social dependency. Thank John Roberts and the Bushes who appointed him, and the Cheney’s who advised them whose social insanity is reflected in the January 6th committee.. For want of a nail the shoe, the horse the message the war was lost. For want of the pinheads the nation is being lost.
A shortage of pin heads is not the problem with our Mad Hatter ruling class .We have an abundance of pin heads and pig nuts. That IS the problem ! A pig nut is a nut, about the size of a pea ,it takes a sledge hammer to crack it , when you crack it there is nothing inside .