Dr. Rachel Levine Denies Having Pressured WPATH to Remove Age Limits on Minors' Gender Treatments
Subpoenaed records indicate that the former Biden health official, once the highest-ranking openly transgender member of government, did indeed do this, and explicitly for political reasons.
Dr. Rachel Levine, who as a Biden administration health official was the highest-ranking openly transgender member of the federal government, has denied that she sought to pressure a major transgender health group into removing age limits on gender-transition interventions.
She has additionally claimed that the evidence backing the field of pediatric gender medicine is “strong.”
Both of these claims, which Dr. Levine made in an interview yesterday with The Advocate, are refuted by considerable evidence.
Dr. Levine, a pediatrician by training, served as the assistant secretary for health throughout President Biden’s term.
Alabama’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, in defense of his state’s ban on prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors with gender dysphoria, subpoenaed a raft of records from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. WPATH is an activist-medical organization that publishes what are known as the Standards of Care, w…
