One of America’s top health officials has come under fire for saying that all pediatricians agree on providing children and teenagers with ‘gender-affirming care’ – despite vocal opposition to puberty blockers from doctors over the past few years.
Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine – who is also America’s highest-appointed transgender female – told NPR in a recent interview that ‘there is [an] evidence-based standard of care for the evaluation and treatment of trans individuals’ set by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
