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>After HHS official Rachel Levine’s influence over SOC8 became public this week, the White House stated that it “does not support surgery for minors.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/health/transgender-surgery-biden.html

That NYT story is very weird.

>The Biden administration said this week that it opposed gender-affirming surgery for minors, the most explicit statement to date on the subject from a president who has been a staunch supporter of transgender rights. The White House announcement was sent to The New York Times on Wednesday in response to an article reporting that staff in the office of Adm. Rachel Levine, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, had urged an influential international transgender health organization to remove age minimums for surgery from its treatment guidelines for minors.

First of all, this "annoucement" seems to have gone only to the NYT. There's no other mention of it that I can find anywhere else in the MSM. Shouldn't this be big news? Shouldn't the transqueer NGOs be ripping their hair out over this?

Secondly, the NYT got it on "Wednesday" but did not publish the story until very late on Friday. Gee, did anything interesting happen on, say, Thursday?

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This is an excellent article.

I would point this out though--even though "gender dysphoria" is in the DSM, studying its origin reveals that it is, in fact, total bullshit.

All one really has to do is ask--define gender and explain how it's different from sex.

No one can really answer that clearly, not even the APA task force that recommended the change from "gender identity disorder" to "gender dysphoria."

Then all one needs to ask is "define what a man is, define what a woman is, then explain how a man can feel like a woman."

Nobody can answer that. That is because "gender dysphoria" is actually bullshit.

Everybody knows that homosexuality used to be in the DSM as a mental illness, that was removed. The DSM changes frequently because it is a political document which reflects the zeitgeist. "Gender dysphoria" can be erased too, eventually. They're trying to change it to "gender incongruence" as we speak.

Once "trans" becomes radioactive (like cigarettes or opioids) it can be removed from the DSM, no matter how much money is behind it.

I hope the lawyers who argue against this will understand that though I know there is a lot of money involved here.

https://kathighsmith.substack.com/p/trans-is-a-fraudand-it-always-has

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