Thread: 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/nhttps://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1364978976364650496?s=20 …
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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/nhttps://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1108744290849705984?s=20 …
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Here, a Stanford pediatric endocrinologist extols the virtues of underage SRS, since the genitals have been rendered useless by puberty blockers anyway. 11/nhttps://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1119978084499894272?s=20 …
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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. /ENDShow this thread
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Someday, people will look back in absolute horror on early-21st century medical experimentation on vulnerable children.
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Yeah, that meteor really can't come soon enough
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