HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine addressed concerns about gender transitions in an interview with NPR, stating that efforts to ban gender transitions for minors are politically motivated. While acknowledging ongoing research and discussion in medical protocols, Levine differentiates this from the anti-trans laws being passed, which she characterizes as an attack on the LGBTQI+ community.
During portions of an interview with NPR aired on Monday’s “Morning Edition,” HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine responded to a question on Levine’s prior claims that there isn’t any argument among the health field about gender transition s in light of physicians raising concern about gender transition s by stating that “There is always ongoing research to study any of our medical protocols, and that would include transgender medicine.
NPR Health Policy Correspondent Selena Simmons-Duffin said, “Levine has been a target in right-wing media, sometimes just for being trans, but also for supporting gender-affirming care. She told NPR in 2022 that, ‘here is no argument among medical professionals about the value and importance of gender-affirming care.
She then played a clip of Levine responding, “There is always ongoing research to study any of our medical protocols, and that would include transgender medicine. And we should always have robust discussion and analysis of our treatment protocols and they need to be based on data.” Simmons-Duffin then stated, “She differentiates between that process in the medical field and the anti-trans laws that are being passed around the country.” And played a clip of Levine stating, “This is really a politically and ideologically-motivated effort developed by a think tank in Washington in order to attack the LGBTQI+ community, starting with the trans community. And, unfortunately, it has been very successful.
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