Rand Paul goes on unhinged transphobic rant at Dr. Rachel Levine’s confirmation hearing

Sen. Rand Paul/Dr. Rachel Levine
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) went on an anti-transgender tirade when questioning Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden’s nominee for assistant secretary of health.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a joint hearing to confirm Surgeon General Nominee Dr. Vivek Murphy and Dr. Levine, who is transgender and is the current surgeon general for Pennsylvania. Most questions focused on the government’s response to COVID-19.

Related: Puberty blockers reduce suicidal thoughts in trans people. Republicans want to ban them.

But Sen. Paul decided to rant about how gender affirming health care for transgender kids should be banned instead of left up to families and doctors.

Genital mutilation has been nearly universally condemned,” Paul started, literally comparing gender affirming health care to child genital mutilation directly to a transgender woman. “Genital mutilation has been condemned by the WHO, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Population Fund.”

He went on to say that genital mutilation is egregious because “it is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children.”

If he wanted to compare bottom surgery to genital mutilation, he was already starting out wrong – it’s almost unheard of for minors to get bottom surgery. In fact, that’s why everyone is talking about puberty blockers all the time – to give trans youth more time to understand themselves before puberty permanently affects their bodies.

He then turned to puberty blockers and cited the American College of Pediatricians, an SPLC designated hate group that promotes anti-LGBTQ bias. It is often confused with the American Pediatric Association, the real professional association for pediatricians that urges parents of trans kids to “listen, respect and support their child’s self-expressed identity.”

Paul says that “80 to 90 percent” of children with gender dysphoria “will experience resolution,” a euphemism for stopping being transgender. This statistic is fake but Paul said it anyway…

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