26 Feb '21 09:32>
A GOP Senator Just Compared Trans Health Care to ‘Genital Mutilation’ --------
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul used the Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine to falsely compare gender-affirming treatment for kids to genital mutilation.
She’s set to be the highest-profile trans government official in U.S. history. So Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul used Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine to falsely compare gender-affirming health care to genital mutilation.
“Most genital mutilation is not typically performed by force but, as WHO notes, that by social convention, social norm, the social pressure to conform, to do what others do and have been doing as well as the need to be accepted socially and the fear of being rejected by the community,” Paul told Levine, a Pennsylvania pediatrician and health official who’s nominated to become President Joe Biden’s assistant health secretary.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vgv7/a-gop-senator-just-compared-trans-health-care-to-genital-mutilation
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IMO...
If there is nothing medically wrong with the genitalia, then operating on it and/or removing it due to social pressure and peer pressure is as wrongful as cutting off a child's ear so s/he can look like a pirate. Totally senseless and in fact, should be illegal.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul used the Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine to falsely compare gender-affirming treatment for kids to genital mutilation.
She’s set to be the highest-profile trans government official in U.S. history. So Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul used Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine to falsely compare gender-affirming health care to genital mutilation.
“Most genital mutilation is not typically performed by force but, as WHO notes, that by social convention, social norm, the social pressure to conform, to do what others do and have been doing as well as the need to be accepted socially and the fear of being rejected by the community,” Paul told Levine, a Pennsylvania pediatrician and health official who’s nominated to become President Joe Biden’s assistant health secretary.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vgv7/a-gop-senator-just-compared-trans-health-care-to-genital-mutilation
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IMO...
If there is nothing medically wrong with the genitalia, then operating on it and/or removing it due to social pressure and peer pressure is as wrongful as cutting off a child's ear so s/he can look like a pirate. Totally senseless and in fact, should be illegal.