House investigates Biden official over pressure to lower age limits for gender-transition surgeries

In June, email excerpts between the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and staff for Adm. Rachel Levine, the HHS’s assistant secretary for health, showed that Levine’s office pressured the group to drop its age requirements for minors to obtain transgender surgeries in its September 2022 Standards of Care update.

Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on health, wrote to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday requesting all email documentation on the “political interference by HHS” into recommendations for treating youth gender dysphoria.

“The Biden Administration’s advocacy for expanding the pool of vulnerable children subjected to life-altering procedures they may later regret is reprehensible,” McClain wrote to Becerra. ”Emails indicating that this advocacy was done for political advantage — possibly

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