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This week Pres. Biden's nominee for Asst. Health Secretary, Rachel Levine, was grilled during confirmation hearings. The MSM is unified in condemning Sen. Rand Paul, who pressed Levine (to no avail) to opine on under-18 medical transition. 1/n
It's no secret Levine is a proponent of the "affirmative" model of pediatric transition, as demonstrated in the video described in this quoted tweet. Among other things, Levine thinks teens living on the street should be prescribed cross-sex hormones. 2/n

Levine also says in the 2017 speech that under-18s can and should in some cases be allowed to undergo gender surgeries. But Levine is hardly alone in the "affirmative" clinician crowd... 3/n
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, in this 2015 workshop at a gender conference, says "a lot" of the young patients she prescribes cross-sex hormones to are homeless, many use drugs & some are involved in the "sex economy." 4/n
"A LOT of drug use...it's LA, I'll give you that," Dr. JOK quips.

"Sexually active, & a not insignificant number had done sex economy, sex work for a place to live, something to eat....a lot...have experienced homelessness, precarious housing, & have been in foster care." 5/n
Dr. JOK moves on to what she calls a "hot topic": "Gender confirmation" surgery for minors.

1:25: "This idea that a 14 or 15 year old would want a vagina is really not that out there!" 6/n
1:37: "Surgery, chest surgery for trans guys as minors is CRITICAL. And it's available!"

Remember, this is a 2015 workshop. How many Americans are aware that young teens have been receiving double mastectomies for more than 6 years? 7/n
Genital surgeries are less available for minors, JOK says, since "...it's surgical sterilization & people get super worked up about that. And that is the barrier we have to overcome. And I think we're going to." 8/n
"We" shall overcome the barriers constructed by the super-worked-up "people."

Does "we" include Dr. Rachel Levine? We don't know, because Biden's nominee refused to answer the question this week. 9/n
One thing we do know: Genital surgeries for minors are already happening in the US; they have been for years. in the below thread, you can see a 2017 paper "Age is Just a Number" where multiple surgeons discuss performing under-18 vaginoplasty. 10/n

Here, a Stanford pediatric endocrinologist extols the virtues of underage SRS, since the genitals have been rendered useless by puberty blockers anyway. 11/n
As the US Senate decides whether Rachel Levine will be confirmed, the question remains: Does Levine agree such underage surgeries are good medical practice?

Levine won't say. And @SenateDems--as well as the US mainstream press--don't seem to think we have a right to know. /END

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