In acts of naked cultural imperialism, the Biden administration has launched propaganda, regulatory, and soon litigation campaigns aimed at requiring that children have unfettered access to gender transition interventions.
- “Puberty Blockers: Using certain types of hormones to pause pubertal development.”
- “Hormone Therapy: Testosterone hormones for those who were assigned female at birth and Estrogen hormones for those who were assigned male at birth [from] early adolescence onward.”
- “Gender-Affirming Surgeries: ‘Top’ surgery—to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts. ‘Bottom’ surgery—surgery on genitals or reproductive organs. Facial feminization or other procedures ... case-by-case in adolescence.”
No kidding!
The academy also pointed out an important fact that one never hears from the Biden administration’s transgender proselytizers: Transgenderism in children is often a temporary condition. Moreover, there are no objective medical tests to tell treating doctors which children have “persisting gender dysphoria“ and which are experiencing ”transient adolescent dysphoria.”
The report also warns about an unprecedented “epidemic” of children believing they aren’t really their biological sex, noting that in a U.S. study, 10 percent of students questioned “declared themselves to be transgender or non-binary or were unsure of their gender.” Just a few years ago, such numbers would have been infinitesimal.
What might this mean? For one thing, it may be that children are being pushed into believing they’re transgender by well-meaning adults (or those with an ideological transgender ax to grind). If true—that could also mean that at least some provision of “early gender-affirming care” is medical malpractice of the most serious kind.
Indeed, because of the potential adverse outcomes and uncertainties of diagnosis, France’s National Academy advised that “great medical caution must be taken in children and adolescents, given the vulnerability, particularly psychological, of this population and the many undesirable effects and even serious complications that can be caused by some of the therapies available.”
Alas, the Biden administration is throwing caution to the wind. Contrary to France’s rational, protective, and data-informed approach, the Biden administration is stampeding to make childhood transitions the norm in our medical system and required by law to be provided upon request.
The Biden administration’s transgender missionaries also intend to force medical professionals to participate in childhood transitions—even though “the science” (as they say) is clearly far from settled. Thus, Biden has supported the “Equality Act,” which would not only prohibit medical professionals from refusing to perform transition procedures, but would also gut the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that could allow those with faith objections to opt out.
Along these lines, HHS is expected to soon publish proposed regulations requiring all medical institutions, organizations, self-insured employers, and professionals to perform or provide access to (among other controversial procedures, such as abortion) transgender transition interventions. The regulation was given sharp teeth—the expected rule would allow patients to file private discrimination lawsuits if denied required coverage or procedures.
It’s stunning how far the transgender movement has advanced—to the point that children are in danger of having their healthy physical futures sacrificed on the altar of “equity, diversity, and inclusion.” But that’s the essential nature of a moral panic. It sweeps all before it in an emotional tsunami of irrationality.
Leaders are supposed to cool such public passions. Instead, Biden’s absolutism threatens to enact the most radical and potentially physically harmful policies the nation has witnessed since the eugenics stampede left 60,000 innocent Americans involuntarily sterilized.
If the president succeeds in sweeping aside all checks and balances to the transgender juggernaut, his legacy will be measured by the ruined lives of children who were sacrificed to a revolutionary social experiment bent on subverting sexual norms and destroying childhood innocence.