Rand Paul likens child sex-change procedures to 'genital mutilation' while grilling Biden's transgender HHS nominee
Paul demanded to know whether Dr. Rachel Levine thinks the government should override parents' consent for their child to begin taking hormones or undergoing gender reassignment surgery
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday pressed President Joe Biden's nominee for assistant secretary of health on whether the government should override a parent's consent to allow a gender-dysphoric child to begin taking hormones or pursue sex-change surgery.
Paul asked Dr. Rachel Levine, who identifies as a transgender woman, whether minors are capable of making life-altering decisions to undergo irreversible medical procedures that permanently change their bodies. In his question, Paul compared sex-change operations for minors to genital mutilation.-- More...