A top Biden administration health official successfully pressured an international group of medical experts to do away with age limit guidelines for transgender procedures, including gender-changing surgery, for minors, an unsealed court document shows.
Adm. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, feared that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s late 2021 draft guidelines would make it difficult for American transgender youth to obtain access to the procedures, according to email excerpts between WPATH members included
WPATH guidance recommended age minimums of 14 for hormone treatment, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation and 17 for genital surgeries.Adm. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, pressured an international group of medical experts to do away with age limit guidelines for transgender procedures.
“Apparently the situation in the USA is terrible and and the Biden administration worried that having ages in the document will make matters worse,” the health group member continued.In another excerpt, a WPATH member recounts a conversation Levine’s chief of staff, Sarah Boateng, and notes that “She wonders if the specific ages can be taken out” on the proposed guidelines.
The international group “capitulated and removed the text in violation of its own process despite the preference of its own committee members to retain the age limits” after the pressure campaign, Cantor stated in the filing.
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