Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine recently argued that medical interventions such as hormone therapy could be necessary for children who are experiencing the “wrong puberty.”
Levine appeared Friday in the first installment of the ABC “Nightline” series, “Identity Denied: Trans in America,” which featured a teenager who claimed to be under attack by Republican efforts to ban gender reassignment surgeries and drugs for minors in states across the country.
Levine dismissed concerns that children younger than 18 are too young to consent to what the LBGTQ community describes as “gender-affirming care.”
“Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard,” she continued. “What if you’re going through the wrong puberty? What if you inside feel that you are female, but now you’re going through a male puberty?”
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