{"id":14443,"date":"2022-05-01T18:42:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T01:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=14443"},"modified":"2022-05-28T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:08:31","slug":"democrat-party-and-biden-administration-promote-transgender-mutilation-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/democrat-party-and-biden-administration-promote-transgender-mutilation-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Party and Biden Administration Promote Transgender Mutilation of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Insanity_01_900x643.jpg\" alt=\"Democrat Party and Biden Administration Promote Transgender Mutilation of Children\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Insanity_01_900x643.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Insanity_01_900x643-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Insanity_01_900x643-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>by Rod Dreher &#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>This stuff is absolutely intolerable. I remind you: they are talking about seizing children from families to put them through sex reassignment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, squall about it all you want, but that\u2019s exactly what the Democratic Party is, if you take seriously the Biden Administration\u2019s newly released guidelines on health care for trans youth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-administration-transgender-agenda-youth-sex-change-hormone-therapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Take a look:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Population Affairs released a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opa.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-03\/gender-affirming-care-young-people-march-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document<\/a>\u00a0Thursday titled \u201cGender Affirming Care and Young People.\u201d The same day, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration\u2019s National Child Traumatic Stress Network \u2013 another subset of the HHS \u2013 released a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nctsn.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/fact-sheet\/gender-affirming-care-is-trauma-informed-care.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parallel document<\/a>\u00a0titled, \u201cGender-Affirming Care Is Trauma-Informed Care.\u201d <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The HHS documents describe what it calls appropriate treatments for transgender adolescents, including: \u201c<strong>\u2018Top\u2019 surgery<\/strong> \u2013 to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts;\u201d and \u201c<strong>\u2018Bottom\u2019 surgery<\/strong> \u2013 surgery on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization or other procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents, early gender-affirming care is crucial to overall health and well-being as it allows the child or adolescent to focus on social transitions and can increase their confidence while navigating the healthcare system,\u201d the NCTSN wrote in their release. \u201cIt may include evidence-based interventions such as puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NCTSN document goes out of its way to assure the public that the use of gender-affirming methods such as surgery and hormone replacement are not child abuse \u2013 most likely in response to recent policy decision in Texas that made such treatments illegal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nctsn.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resources\/fact-sheet\/gender-affirming-care-is-trauma-informed-care.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here is a link to the fuller HHS document stating the administration\u2019s position.<\/a> Excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no scientifically sound research showing negative impacts from providing gender-affirming care. The decision for the child welfare system to become involved in the lives of families, potentially to the extent of removing children from their families and homes, should be wielded with the utmost care, grounded in evidence, and always prioritizing the well-being of children and preservation of families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That ought to send a chill down everyone\u2019s spine. The Biden Administration is laying the policy groundwork for the <strong>seizing of minor children from parents<\/strong>, for the sake of jacking those children up with hormones, and <strong>mutilating their bodies with surgery<\/strong>!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Gender-Affirm_Insanity_01.png\" alt=\"Democrat Party and Biden Administration Promote Transgender Mutilation of Children\" width=\"800\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Gender-Affirm_Insanity_01.png 800w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Gender-Affirm_Insanity_01-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Gender-Affirm_Insanity_01-768x198.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Got that? It is US Government policy that you must affirm, always affirm. There is no controversy here. None. Along those lines:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Gender-Affirm_Insanity_02.png\" alt=\"Democrat Party and Biden Administration Promote Transgender Mutilation of Children\" width=\"800\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Gender-Affirm_Insanity_02.png 800w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Gender-Affirm_Insanity_02-300x46.png 300w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Gender-Affirm_Insanity_02-768x118.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\nI remind you that this very US government policy document actually states that there are \u201cno scientifically sound\u201d reasons to doubt whether hormones and surgery for minors is harmful, and to say, therefore, that children may be removed from their families so that their bodies can be altered by the state.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Democratic Party at work. This is what it means to have a Democratic government. Does having a Republican government mean reversing all of this? One hopes so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Folks, they really are coming for our children.<\/strong> It\u2019s right there on the government website. They are propagandizing doctors to act as agents of the state in the seizure of kids. Read the document yourself!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: This is one issue on which I don\u2019t believe it is possible to be too radical in pushing back. This stuff is absolutely intolerable. I remind you: they are talking about seizing children from families to put them through sex reassignment. Could that possibly be more dystopian?! Sure, they say that they are going to be careful about it, but the fact is they plan to do it at all. This is outrageous. People should be in the streets protesting this.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/>\nExcerpts from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/transgender-youth-democrats-party-of-child-mutilators-kidnappers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American Conservative<\/a>. <em>(Minor organizational edits and bolding of key phrases done by blog editors done to enhance readability.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Insanity_01_900x643.jpg\" alt=\"Democrat Party and Biden Administration Promote Transgender Mutilation of Children\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Insanity_01_900x643.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Insanity_01_900x643-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Biden_Dems_Trans_Insanity_01_900x643-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rod Dreher &#8211; This stuff is absolutely intolerable. I remind you: they are talking about seizing children from families to put them through sex reassignment. Yeah, yeah, squall about it all you want, but that\u2019s exactly what the Democratic Party is, if you take seriously the Biden Administration\u2019s newly released guidelines on health care &#8230; <a title=\"Democrat Party and Biden Administration Promote Transgender Mutilation of Children\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/democrat-party-and-biden-administration-promote-transgender-mutilation-of-children\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrat Party and Biden Administration Promote Transgender Mutilation of Children\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[181,187,183,185,184,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt-tyranny","category-lgbtq-groom-children","category-lgbtq-war-on-children","category-transdelusion","category-transgender-delusion","category-transgender-war-on-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}