The Post Millennial
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“When we asked HHS to provide this data, all they offered was a single two-page information sheet with links to cherry-picked, often activist-generated research to justify irreversible and possibly dangerous measures,” said Chamberlain. “Meanwhile, European health services are actively withdrawing their support for these therapies. Even in the face of this, the Assistant Secretary accuses skeptics of ideological motives.”
Levine has long used his role to assert the importance of gender-affirming care for minors, also known as sex change treatments. Biden’s health secretary has stated that opposition to transgender youth receiving “evidence-based” gender-affirming treatments is “unconscionable.”
Levine told Reuters, “Gender-affirming care for transgender youth is essential.”
Levine also stated to NPR, “There is no argument among medical professionals—pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine, physicians, adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, et cetera—about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care.”
The Daily Wire reports that the HHS also states on its website, without providing scientific evidence to backup its claims, that “At HHS, we listen to medical experts and doctors, and they agree with us, that access to affirming care for transgender youth is essential.”
“These statements not only do not acknowledge the contrary evidence, they assert that there is none,” the group said in the letter. “In spite of voluminous scientific evidence from around the world, as well as a growing number of policy decisions in other countries that run in the opposite direction, Adm. Levine has consistently made assertions indicating there is no data, studies, or evidence that contradicts or does not support these statements. The Assistant Secretary has also not only ignored the burgeoning controversy regarding the use of these treatments for minors, but has declared that it simply does not exist, that there is not a modicum of controversy in the scientific or medical communities regarding these treatments.”
“In fact, the opposite appears to be true. There appears to be little evidence in support of the statements issued by Adm. Levine. HHS was provided the opportunity to present the evidence upon which these statements are based. Instead of producing reams of studies, data, and evidence, the agency was unable to deliver anything but a single two-page information sheet, with a few cherry-picked studies. It is difficult to imagine a more clear-cut case of an official violating HHS’s scientific integrity policies and undermining the state of science in pursuit of a controversial policy agenda,” the group argued.
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