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Biden Administration Pushed to Remove Age Limits for Gender Surgery – HotAir

The extremism of the Biden administration apparently knows no bounds. Today the NY Times reports that the administration pushed the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to remove age limits for transgender surgery.

The draft guidelines, released in late 2021, recommended lowering the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies.

The proposed age limits were eliminated in the final guidelines outlining standards of care, spurring concerns within the international group and with outside experts as to why the age proposals had vanished.

A minor can’t buy an alcoholic drink or get a tattoo but the Biden administration, in the form of assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services Rachael Levine, thought limiting…

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