What’s wrong with this picture? Exactly. Long blonde frizzy hair, hormone injections, and a tuck of the penis and testes do not a female make. Or is there a selective mutilation gash? Only the family physician knows for sure.
And is Rachel a great, or even a competent, physician? It matters not. This is 2021, and Rachel is trans. This story was reported by Bruce Bawer on frontpagemag.com.
If you consult the mainstream news media on a regular basis, you’ve probably heard that last Thursday was a red-letter day in American history — an occasion for dancing in the streets from Bangor to Burbank, and for socially distanced champagne toasts from Key West to Ketchikan. Why?
Because, for the first time ever, a transgender nominee for a government office was up for Senate confirmation. That nominee was Dr. Rachel Levine, Joe Biden’s pick for Assistant Secretary for Health.
Rachel’s birth name was Richard, and the transition was made a decade ago, at the age of 53. Rachel divorced a couple years after the transition and has two children from that marriage.
Importantly, Rachel is not only a trans person; Rachel is a trans activist, a self-described champion of transgender youth. Meaning what?
Meaning, among much else, that Rachel supports giving puberty blockers to children who say they’re the opposite sex, and is open to ordering “gender-confirmation” surgery to kids under age 18 with or without parental permission.
It also means that Rachel, an affirmed transgender woman (by my definition, still in possession of the male package) is qualified to counsel people, including children, with gender dysphoria concerning sex reassignment surgery (by my definition, genital mutilation surgery).
Rachel’s last job was as Health Commissioner in Pennsylvania. There were national headlines when it emerged that Rachel’s mother had been removed for her safety from a care home even as Rachel was ordering elderly hospital patients who’d tested positive for COVID back into nursing homes. Like Andrew Cuomo’s similar move in New York, this action doubtless contributed to the state’s elevated toll of COVID deaths in such establishments – a matter that Sen. Richard Burr (Rino-NC) brought up at the hearing.
But hey, Rachel is trans!
Because Rachel’s appointment broke a glass ceiling, the Democrats treated the hearing as a celebration. But Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had to spoil the party. Noting Rachel’s support for puberty blockers and the “surgical destruction of a minor’s genitalia,” Sen. Paul, who is a physician, pointed out that genital mutilation is internationally considered “a violation of human rights” and that “80 to 95% of prepubertal children with gender dysphoria” snap out of it “by late adolescence” if left alone. This being the case, asked Sen. Paul, “do you believe that minors are capable of making such a life-changing decision as changing one’s sex?”
Rachel, who had dodged Sen. Burr’s questions about nursing-home deaths in Pennsylvania, also favored Sen. Paul with a total non-response: “Well, Senator, thank you for your interest in this question. Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care…. if I am fortunate enough to be confirmed…I will look forward to working with you and your office.”
Sen. Paul tried again. “Do you support the government intervening to override the parent’s consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia?” He cited the not unrepresentative case of a 23-year-old woman who, in her teens, confused about her identity, took hormones and had a mastectomy, only to regret it now. “What I’m alarmed at,” he said, “is that you’re not willing to say absolutely minors shouldn’t be making decisions to amputate their breast or to amputate their genitalia.” In reply, Rachel repeated the whole “thank you for your interest” spiel almost verbatim. Bridling, Sen. Paul stated that there are no studies to show the long-term impact of such procedures, and that young children are in no position to make such decisions.
Every word that Sen. Paul said was utterly reasonable. Any responsible-minded senator – especially a senator who’s taken the Hippocratic Oath – should’ve been expected to ask Rachel the kind of questions he did. By contrast, Rachel’s refusal to answer them was the very height of insolence. In a saner world, their exchange should’ve raised a red flag and ended Rachel’s career in federal government before it started. But this isn’t a saner world, and this hearing wasn’t about responsible health care. It was about celebrating the landmark nature of this appointment. Hence the committee chair, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), ignored Rachel’s evasions and chided Sen. Paul for not treating Rachel with “respect” and for proffering “ideological and harmful misrepresentations.”
Yes, this confirmation hearing and likewise the life of Rachel Levine are emblematic of what politics, government, and our main street media have become in America. Gender mutilation has become “gender confirmation surgery.” Views based on hard science are condemned as “ideological and harmful misrepresentations.” And the party of “follow the science” has recurringly proven to do so only when convenient. And to make it worse, under the thumb of Democrat party tyranny, the push toward us all becoming clockwork oranges is in hyperdrive.
Bruce Bawer, the writer of the original article, suggests that Rachel is not merely unsightly, “rather Rachel is quite deliberately parading around in awful, slapdash drag and speaking in an absurd falsetto, head bobbing ever so slightly, and daring us to offer any comment short of sheer, unadulterated praise about the far-out figure that she cuts.” Bawer suggests that what we have here is not just another trans woman but a bitter, self-hating creature who wakes up every day feeling like an oddity, who sets out to look the part, and whose crusade to maim the genitalia of children and teens is rooted in a ghoulish desire to be surrounded by other damaged souls and bodies.
Never mind the countless children who, years from now, as adults, will spend every day of their lives grieving the fact that they let themselves be butchered in the name of “gender confirmation.” By then, to be sure, there will be other crazes, other fads, about which crazed liberal columnists will be scribbling, and narcissistic power-hungry politicians will be gloating; and so those despairing men and women who fell in their youth for the trans sales pitch will – alas – have to fend for themselves.
What say you Def-Con News readers? This kind of behavior and these selective surgeries have long been around but they were kept low key, unannounced. Now, we are in a time when all these grotesqueries are splashed in our faces. Welcome to the Roaring Twenties. And Democrat leadership has a way of compounding that which is already worthy of display in cabinets of curiosity.
