For the first time, public support for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people is in decline. The Biden administration’s latest radical transgender activism helps explain why.
Newly leaked emails show that top Biden officials pressured an outside group of transgender health activists to remove all age limits from their recommendations regarding medical gender transition treatments for adolescents. That’s right: No age limits at all.
In late 2021, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health put out initial draft guidelines that recommended a minimum age of “14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies,” according to the New York Times. But aides working on behalf of Rachel Levine, a top Health and Human Services official in the Biden administration who identifies as a transgender woman, lobbied WPATH to scrap all age requirements from its final guidelines, and it did. These minimum ages were nowhere to be found in its final report.