July 9, 2022
President Biden and His Admiral Have Boarded a Sinking Ship
By
Jay Tucker
Admiral (not a Navy admiral) "Rachel" Levine is a so-called transgender woman, a pediatrician, and now a U.S. asst. secretary for health. Levine has joined President Biden and many others in the LGBT campaign to
promote "gender-affirming care" for youths. "There is no argument among medical professionals — pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine physicians, adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, etc. — about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care[.]"
Levine's "no argument" assertions are hogwash for many obvious reasons. Here are three.
First, the 2012 Report of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force (Report), at 4,
emphasized that there is no consensus regarding treatment of children with GID (now called G.D.), because "opinions vary widely among experts" as to treatments.
Second, the 2012 World Professional Association for Transgender Health
Standards of Care asserts that
social transition for children, which would include use of opposite-sex bathrooms and participation in opposite-sex sports, "is a controversial issue."
Third, the American College of Pediatricians has
concluded: "Ethics alone demands an end to the use of pubertal suppression with GnRH agonists, cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment surgeries in children and adolescents. The American College of Pediatricians recommends an immediate cessation of these interventions, as well as an end to promoting gender ideology via school curricula and legislative policies."
So much for Levine's nonsense about "no argument." Such assertions can be only explained as willful attempts to persuade uninformed vulnerable children and their parents.
In the same vein, President Biden has climbed on board with the admiral by
announcing his social transition proposal that K–12 schools must allow males who claim to be females to access female private spaces, such as showers, bathrooms, and sleeping areas. In addition, schools must require staff to use false and confusing pronouns when referring to so-called transgender people and must allow male staff to dress as women while on the job. Specifically claiming reliance upon reasoning of the Supreme Court in the
Bostock Title VII employment case, Biden proposes to accomplish his goals by applying Title IX prohibitions of
sex discrimination in education also to
sexual orientation and
gender identity discrimination.
It appears that Biden did not read the Court's wise warning in the
Bostock opinion. The Court warned that it did not purport to address issues such as use of "sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes or anything else of the kind," whether under Title VII or any other law. Nonetheless, Biden has cavalierly declared that the reasoning in
Bostock applies to the world of K–12 education under Title IX.