The administration recently came out against gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth, which advocates call both “rare and necessary.”
Several prominent LGBTQ + advocates and a dozen transgender lawmakers have criticized the Biden administration for its recent statement that gender-affirming surgeries should only be allowed for transgender adults.
“As President Biden has repeatedly said, ‘It’s wrong that extreme officials are pushing hateful bills targeting transgender children, terrifying families, and criminalizing doctors. These are kids. These are our neighbors.
“The Biden administration is flat wrong on this. It’s wrong on the science and wrong on the substance. It’s also inconsistent with other steps the administration has taken to support transgender youth,” Kelley Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, wrote in a statement.“The administration is surrendering the health care of young transgender people as something to be negotiated in the political domain.
The first reports of the White House’s opposition to surgery for trans youth came after the Times and Fox News published articles describing conversations between the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and staff for Dr. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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