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Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who identifies as a woman, is trying to enlist children’s doctors and nurses into the transgender activist movement, urging them to become evangelists and preach the gospel of transgenderism. Anything less would be a betrayal of their profession and science itself, he argued.
This is particularly troubling in that Levine is assistant secretary of health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Be informed, not misled.
"Rachel" Levine claims that there is a large population of biological males who are really female and vice versa, and these people are likely to commit suicide unless doctors pump them with drugs to delay puberty, introduce a hormone disease into their bodies, and perhaps even remove healthy body parts.
Levine, who graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine, further said that opposition to this “treatment” represents a hateful attack on science and compassion, one that all good doctors must condemn as a damnable heresy.
Of course, his sermon did not speak the plain truth of what he meant.
He couched his pseudo-religious view—that there is a parallel realm of reality where biological males such as himself are really female (and vice versa) and that biology is a lesser reality to be warped in pursuit of this higher realm—in scientific terms, citing studies about a phenomenon that is imperfectly understood.
What is imperfectly understood by these people is that "God is not mocked," and child abuse is despicable.
The back story
Levine made his remarks in a Sept. 22 video message to doctors at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Pediatrics, urging them to become “ambassadors” for what he described as “gender-affirming care.”
The video garnered little attention at the time, but it has since surfaced on Twitter.
9/22/22 Pitt Pediatric Grand Rounds: @SecretaryLevine tells MD’s they need to be activists for medical transgender care in minors.
— Megan Brock (@MegEBrock) December 4, 2022
“I believe in our role as truth-tellers. And the truth that we need to confront now is that medicine and science are being politically perverted.” pic.twitter.com/FbBFK450WR
He told the doctors: “I encourage all of you to think of yourselves as ambassadors to your communities, ambassadors for science, ambassadors for compassion, and ambassadors for care.”
“These conversations don’t have to be limited or restricted to a medical setting. Offer yourselves as informational resources not just for youth but for schoolteachers, principals, school boards, professional organizations, recreation centers, county commissioners, and others who would benefit from this information and your perspective. Please proactively seek opportunities to speak about what you know," he says.
Translation: "Indoctrinate every aspect of society with the lie that transgenderism is normal."
He called them to "go ye into all the world and preach the gospel of transgenderism."
He says, “Our task is to educate the public in as many forms as possible and we need to have these conversations to question the assumptions that are underlying today’s attacks on trans people,” he added. “Pushing back the veil of ignorance demands this extra effort and this is the challenge before our profession.”
Levine painted a dire picture of oppressed people, citing high rates of suicidal thoughts and attempted suicides. He blamed this predicament on a demonic society.
Levine urged doctors "to join the side of the angels" and painted his opponents as "demons."
After professing that he has “no room in my heart for hatred,” he urged doctors to “work together against this intolerance” that would dare push back against his worldview.
He is an appointee of President Biden.
To my friends on the so-called religious Left: Explain to me how it was God's will that you elected this administration?
Levine claims, "Those who attack our community are driven by an agenda of politics and it has nothing to do with medicine, it has nothing to do with science, it has nothing to do with warmth, empathy, compassion, or understanding.” He says, “They’re rejecting the value of supportive medicine, rejecting well-established science, and simply rejecting basic human compassion.”
But the science is not "well established."
This trend extends far beyond Florida. Karolinska Hospital in Sweden announced in May 2021 that it would not prescribe hormonal treatments to minors under 16.
In June 2021, Finland released medical guidelines opposing such drugs for minors, noting: “Cross-sex identification in childhood, even in extreme cases, generally disappears during puberty.” The Finnish guidelines add, “The first-line treatment for gender dysphoria is psychosocial support and, as necessary, psychotherapy and treatment of possible comorbid psychiatric disorders.”
In April 2021, Britain’s National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concluded that the evidence for using puberty-blocking drugs to treat young people is “very low” and that existing studies of the drugs were small and “subject to bias and confounding.”
Many regrets.
Many people who mutilated their bodies in the pursuit of transgender identity have spoken out against the “cult” that ensnared them.
If you doubt that many are having regrets, or want more information from kids, adults, and parents who have regrets, read this report.
Takeaway
Tyler O'Neil writes, "Yet Levine’s dogma will not abide the testimony of heretics. His harvest is plentiful, and the workers are few, so he urges doctors to preach the gospel of 'gender-affirming care' and drive out the demons who dare say that children shouldn’t mutilate their bodies."
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.