Trans HHS Secretary Rachel Levine Opposed Age Limits for Transgender Treatment

Transgender advocate and Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine pushed to remove age limits from the draft guidelines for medical treatment of people who say they are transgender.

A document called, “Appendix A to Supplemental Expert Report of James Cantonr, PH.D” was released as part of a lawsuit, Boe v. Marshall, according to Jesse Signal, a left-wing critic of transgender ideology. Cantor is described as being a “Canadian sex researcher” and “critic of youth gender medicine, and frequent expert witness on behalf of those attempting to ban” or restrict youth gender health care.

Cantor writes in the document that, Levine “attempted to and did influence the substantive content of” the Standards of Care Rules, version 8 (SOC-8), “based on political goals rather than science.”

The SOC-8 rules are guidelines that help medical professionals provide safe gender-affirming care to people who say they are transgender.

“Specifically, Assistant Secretary Levine through a staff member, pressured WPATH [World Professional Association for Transgender Health] to remove recommended minimum ages for medical transition treatments from SOC-8,” Cantor writes. (Read more from “Trans HHS Secretary Rachel Levine Opposed Age Limits for Transgender Treatment” HERE)

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