Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan co-signed a March 29 letter to the Department of Health and Human Services criticizing gender-affirming care for children, calling it “far from proper healthcare.”
released Friday said that legal prohibitions on gender-affirming care are harmful to LGBTQ+ youth and that such treatment can be medically necessary.to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra from Sullivan, signed by 10 other Republican senators and four Republican members of Congress, expresses concern that the HHS department is “encouraging medical providers, who should have the best interest of a child as their top priority, to perform ‘gender affirming care.
“Health authorities should protect children from making life-altering decisions that can irreparably harm their overall health,” the letter said. “Rather than encourage gender dysphoric children to undergo life-changing medical treatments to match their perceived ‘gender identity’ — a poorly defined concept — the federal government and the medical community should strive to ensure they have time to mature naturally.
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