Rand Paul likens child sex-change procedures to 'genital mutilation' while grilling Biden's transgender HHS nominee

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...