Transgender advocate and Undersecretary of State for Health Rachel Levin has called for the age limit to be removed from draft guidelines on medical care for people who identify as transgender.
a document The document, called “Appendix A to the Supplemental Expert Report of Dr. James Canton,” was made public as part of the lawsuit. Baugh v. Marshall, according to Jesse Signal is a left-wing critic of transgender ideology. Kanter is described as a “Canadian sex researcher” and a “critic of youth gender medicine” who frequently testifies as an expert witness on behalf of those who seek to “ban or restrict youth gender medicine.”
In his letter, Cantor wrote that Levin “sought to, and did, influence the substantive content of the Eighth Edition Standards of Care Rule (SOC-8) based on political rather than scientific objectives.”
The SOC-8 rule is a guideline that helps medical professionals provide safe gender-affirming care to people who identify as transgender.
“Specifically, Assistant Secretary Levin, through her staff, exerted pressure on WPATH. [World Professional Association for Transgender Health] “We are removing the recommended minimum age for medical transitional care from SOC-8,” Kanter wrote.
In the documents, Kanter presents “internal communications from WPATH members” and correspondence indicating that Levine, who is biologically male, strongly pressured WPATH leadership to expedite the development and publication of Version 8 of the SOC rules “to support the Administration’s political strategy.”
The document notes that internal communications from WPATH members indicate that “the development process of SOC-8” was “influenced by pressure from government officials” like Levin to remove age restrictions on sex-change medical procedures.
I spoke with Admiral Levin today, and he is, as always, very supportive of SOC 8, but also very eager for its release to ensure its integration into the Biden Administration’s U.S. health care policy. So, let’s get to work!
The U.S. Department of Health is very committed to moving forward on transgender health issues, so I will be meeting with Rachel Levine and her team next week.
WPATH’s failure to address SOC 8 has proven an obstacle to optimal policy progress, and she [Dr. Levine] They wanted to know when SOC 8 would be published.
[T]This should be taken as an order from the U.S. government to do what is necessary to complete the project immediately.
This was announced after the SOC-8 rule was released in September 2022. As Breitbart News previously reported, the new guidelines included a lower age limit, but a correction published a week later removed the “recommended minimum age for gender-affirming medical and surgical treatment for adolescents.”
The Cantor documents also include internal communications citing Sara Boateng, Levin’s chief of staff, as saying, “My biggest concern is the section in the adolescent chapter that specifically lists minimum ages for treatment. I believe, based on the rhetoric we’re hearing in Washington and what we’ve already seen, that listing a specific age below 18 would create legislation that would be devastating to transgender care. I wonder if we could remove the specific age and create a supporting document that would be published or distributed in a less conspicuous way than SOC8, which would be a better way to go.”
WPATH is considered the leading and leading Organization Focused on transgender health care, the organization offers guidance to individuals with gender dysphoria.
