.HHS_ASH Rachel Levine sought studies favoring gender transitions for minors, email shows
Dr. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the, requested research favoring allowing minors to undergo gender transition surgeries, such as double mastectomies, in 2017 from a doctor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Levine, the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, has been a staunch advocate for"gender-affirming care," such as gender transition surgeries or puberty blockers, and has argued that states should not limit minors' access to such treatments. Levine was Pennsylvania's physician general beginning in 2015 and later was named as secretary for Pennsylvania's Department of Health in 2018.
"Hi Rachel, I'm not aware of existing literature but it is certainly happening. I think we've had more than 10 patients who have had chest surgery under 18 and 1 bottom surgery ," Dowshen replied in an email to Levine on May 5, 2017. That same year, Levine and Dowshen were both involved in efforts opposing a Pennsylvania state bill that would have prohibited Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program from covering transition-related services, including gender transition surgery, in the state. The bill was laterLevine has continued to be outspoken on transgender issues, including while going through Senate confirmation for assistant secretary of health. Last year, during a confirmation hearing, Sen.
"Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed," Levine
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