Dr. Rachel Levine says gender-affirming care for minors has the Biden administration’s “biggest support.”

Transgender Deputy Secretary of Health Rachel Levine says gender-affirming care for minors has the “biggest support” of the Biden administration.

Levine has promised that medical reassignment of children will soon be normalized, and praised the controversial medical procedure that has been banned in several states on the Pediatric Grand Rounds Session at the Children’s Medical Center at Hartford.

Levine was invited to speak at the event about the Florida Parental Rights in Education law and the political implications of sex reassignment surgeries taking place in children’s hospitals.

“I don’t think it will be politically beneficial. It wasn’t determined in 2022 and so I think when we look at all the different elections in 2024, I think the next two years are going to be challenging,” Levine said.

“But I’m positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that and that this issue won’t be such a minefield politically and socially.”

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of the Do No Harm Organization, a national association of medical professionals that fights “wake up” healthcare activism, told Fox news that there is ‘no good evidence’ to support these claims.

“Levine’s performance at Connecticut Children’s Hospital in which he praises ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors and claims it will be fully embraced is wrong and must be countered,” Goldfarb said.

“There is no good evidence that children treated with sex reassignment hormones or puberty blockers have better mental health ratings.”

A recent study from the University of Washington showed no change in the psychological well-being of minors, Goldfarb added.

“Irreversible harm can be done to children by those who push for these radical, ideologically driven treatments,” he said.

“Treatment of minors should be based on rigorous scientific research, not questionable, agenda-driven studies or the demands of activists.”

Rep. Andy Harris, a member of the House Doctors Caucus and co-chair of the Pro-Life Caucus, said Levine’s comments are “reprehensible.”

“It is reprehensible that any government official, let alone the U.S. Assistant Secretary of HHS, promotes the genital mutilation of minors as standard practice in the U.S.,” he said.

“As a physician, I was proud to be a co-sponsor of the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, which bans harmful medical procedures used to treat gender dysphoria in transgender minors, including puberty blockers and surgeries in which minors alter their bodies to match come up with a sex that differs from their biological sex.’

He added: “Many pediatricians, especially pediatric endocrinologists, have expressed serious concerns about the use of puberty blockers, hormone blockers and gender transition surgery in minors.

“These doctors know that these drugs and procedures can affect children’s bone growth, fertility, and breast and prostate cancer risk.

“Meanwhile, HHS has been pressuring health care providers to provide this care lest they face discrimination lawsuits. We must protect our children.’

The comments come after US President Joe Biden lashed out Florida Governor Ron DeSantis without giving his name by calling the state’s actions against transgender youth “almost sinful.”

Florida medical boards voted in November to ban puberty blockers, sex hormones and gender-affirming surgeries on children.

This follows a parental rights bill signed into law by the governor earlier this year that prohibits teachers from providing classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” in kindergarten through third grade.

Biden attacked Florida’s response to transgender youth issues in an interview with former Obama aide Kal Penn on “The Daily Show.”

“It’s just horrible what they’re doing,” Biden said in the video.

“It’s not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, you know, I’ve decided I wanted to be a man, or I want to be a woman. I mean, what are they thinking?

“What’s happening in Florida is, as my mother would say, almost sinful. I mean, it’s just horrible what they’re doing.’

But the DeSantis health administration in Florida pushed back Biden’s comments.

Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Jason Weida told DailyMail.com that the federal government pushing people with gender dysmorphia to have surgeries as minors is the real “sin” and is “decades behind other developed countries” ‘.

The president’s attack on DeSantis and his state’s initiatives is in preparation for a head-to-head presidential election with the governor who has not yet announced a bid for the White House but is expected to run in the GOP primaries within months.

“It is not ‘sinful’ to ban the mutilation of minors,” DeSantis tweeted Tuesday.

“It is unacceptable for the federal government to mandate that procedures such as gender reassignment surgery be allowed for children.”

Florida Republican lawmakers introduced several bills during this session that activists claim are regressive and will strip members of the LGBTQ community of their rights.

“The ‘gender-affirming’ model being pushed by the Biden administration is decades behind other developed countries, including Sweden and most recently Norway,” Weida told DailyMail.com.

“What is ‘sinful’ is that the establishment pushes harmful surgeries and treatments with long-term effects on minors without accountability or transparency.”

Opponents of the proposed legislation in the Sunshine State say the governor is using the guise of education and parental rights to enact laws they say are anti-gay and anti-transgender.

For example, one bill would ban transgender surgeries and health care, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, for children who say they are the opposite sex they were born into.

Weida said the new Florida laws are consistent with what was found after the state health agency conducted a 2022 review of services promoted by Biden and the federal government to treat gender dysmorphia in minors.

Last year, the Agency conducted a thorough evaluation of several services promoted by the federal government to treat gender dysphoria and found that these services — sex reassignment surgery, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers — are inconsistent with generally accepted professional medical standards and are experimental and investigating with the potential for long-term adverse effects,” he said.

DeSantis released his memoir “The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival” last month and is currently on a book tour that many see as a pre-presidential bid-announcement tour of the states.

The book and the priorities of Florida’s current legislative sessions are seen primarily as a platform on which DeSantis would campaign once he bid for the GOP nomination in 2024.

The Parental Rights in Education Act, which the governor signed into law last year, has been called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by critics because it prevented educators from including discussions of gender identity or sexual orientation in their curriculum.

The law currently includes children in kindergarten through third grade, but Florida’s legislature is now considering expanding it to minors through eighth grade.