Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary Rachel Levine, a transgender doctor appointed by President Joe Biden, said “gender-affirming care,” including for minors, is “mental health care.”
Levine, who advocates for the normalization of child sex changes, during an interview last week with a transgender activist downplayed procedures like irreversible sex reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers as just “mental health care.”
“It’s such an important issue for our youth and adults,” Levine said. “We often say that gender-affirming care is health care—gender-affirming care is mental health care—and gender-affirming care is literally suicide-prevention care.”
The Biden official added in the interview that “pride” should not just be celebrated in June, but that the entire season should be the “summer of pride.”
“All summer long we will be celebrating the ‘Summer of Pride,'” Levine tweeted last week. “I see it as an opportunity for change in our communities, states, and nation.”
Levine in March said pediatric sex-change operations have support at “the highest levels” of the Biden administration and expressed optimism that they will be normalized in the future.
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