United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary
Xavier Becerra thinks that cutting off children’s genitals should be
characterized as health care and funded by taxpayers.
In an exchange with Republican Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana on Wednesday, Becerra not only defended the White House’s support
for experimentation on kids’ sex characteristics but also brushed off
concerns that the so-called “gender-affirming care” promoted by the
government causes irreversible damage.[This is a personal choice NOT to be forcibly paid for by U.S. taxpayers - ED]
“I believe that we should help those have the life-affirming care that they need,” Becerra, who along with the Biden administration has previously signaled support for using taxpayer dollars
to fund genital mutilation surgeries, told Braun. “There are many
transgender youth who have actually gone in the opposite direction,
taking their life. If we can make a life better for someone in America,
we should, especially if, in consultation with their physician, they
approve of those procedures.”
Becerra’s comments come just weeks after the HHS’s Office of Population Affairs dangerously oversimplified the
permanent and damaging effects that radical gender ideology, chemical
castration, puberty blockers, and genital mutilation surgeries have on
children and adults.
That same month, Rachel Levine, the male U.S. assistant secretary for health who masquerades as a female, falsely claimed,
“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.”
In his interrogation of Becerra, Braun pointed out that the puberty
blockers and “grotesque” surgeries recommended by the Biden
administration, specifically HHS, are not approved by the Food and Drug
Administration and thus are often prescribed “off label,” but the
secretary didn’t care. [How is the Biden administration ANY different from the Nazand particulary at Auschwitz - Ed]Is in occupied Europe.. and epecially the human atocities committed at Auschwitz? - ED]
“The FDA would raise alarms if they saw that a particular medicine or
treatment were being misused. And at this stage, what we know is that
for a drug to be out there available, it has to be safe and effective as
FDA has found,” Becerra said. “So what I would simply say with regard
to this particular subject is when individuals go in for care, it’s
their physician who’s making that decision with them about what type of
medicine or treatment they should receive.”
“You know, if you had used that same logic on what we’ve just
navigated through Covid, it seems like there would have been a different
point of view. And to me, for many parents across the country, this has
more potentially tragic consequences, and it seems like it’s a double
standard,” Braun replied.
“Those
decisions are made by that individual in consultation with physician
and caregivers, and no decision would be made without having consulted
appropriately,” Becerra replied.
“I would say to you that many of our medical experts will tell you
that we’ve explored this subject for a long time and what we find is
that we are helping improve the lives of many Americans by providing
them with the care that they have chosen with the informed consent of
family and also with the consent and advice of their own physician,” he
added.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The
Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily
Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she
majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on
Twitter @jordanboydtx.
