Rachel Levine says medicine is being 'politically PERVERTED,' calls on doctors to 'STAND UP' for trans youth

On "The News & Why It Matters," BlazeTV hosts Sara Gonzales and Pat Gray, along with BlazeTV contributor Jaco Booyens and child advocate Chris Elston, discussed a video clip recently uncovered by parental rights advocate Megan Brock showing the Biden administration’s assistant secretary for health, Rachel Levine, calling on doctors to become activists for "LGBTQI+ youth" because "medicine and science are being politically perverted around this country."

"For almost 40 years now, I have considered it an honor to be a doctor. I believe in our role as healers. I believe in our role as truth-tellers, and the truth that we need to confront now is that medicine and science are being politically perverted around this country. This destroys human lives, and we have reached a tipping point for the role of medicine in civic life for the health and well-being of LGBTQI+ youth and other Americans," Levine said in the video.

"Those who attack our community are driven by an agenda of politics. It has nothing to do with medicine. It has nothing to do with science. It has nothing to do with warmth, empathy, compassion, or understanding. They are rejecting the value of supportive medicine, rejecting well-established science, and simply rejecting basic human compassion. We as doctors and as people who love our communities and love our nation, have to confront the fact that the language of care and compassion that they're using is being taken to [sic] granted to literally tear our communities apart. So, we have to stand up. We have to take a stand on behalf of those who are being hurt. That's what we do in medicine, even when it's difficult."

Brock recently exposed a 2017 email exchange between then-physician general for the state of Pennsylvania Levine and Nadia Dowshen, the co-founder and co-director of the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which showed a lack of scientific evidence to justify gender-change surgeries for minors.

Sara called Levine's claims "demonic," adding, "You're literally saying that everything that is not true, is true, and you're calling it medicine."

"What [Levine] means by 'medicine' in this case — and these are from the words of the doctors at the number-one ranked children's hospital in the country, Boston Children's Hospital — if a child, if a little girl tries to pee standing up, or a boy doesn't want to get a haircut, or they play with opposite gender's toys, this makes them transgender," noted Elston.

"Dr. Marci Bowers, president of WPATH, The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, admits that boys who start on puberty blockers at Tanner stage 2, which is the beginning of puberty, as adults haven't been able to have any sexual function. These kids who start on puberty blockers and progress to cross-sex hormones, which is 98% of them, are sterilized for life. So, this is what they call medicine and science, and they call it misinformation or disinformation for us to repeat their own words," he added.

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