플로리다 보건부는 '인물 암살'에 대해 레이첼 레바인을 비난’ 트랜스 청소년 댓글 이상

“젠더위화감으로 고통받는 아동·청소년에 대한 실험적이고 돌이킬 수 없는 치료에 반대한다,” 플로리다 보건부 대변인 Jeremy T. Redfern told Fox News Digital. “The idea that this makes anyone at the Department of Health an ‘opponent of LGBTQ equality’ is nothing more than a poorly attempted character assassination.”

Redfern was responding to comments from Levine last week during a Pride Month Town Hall live-streamed by the Democratic National Committee.

“Opponents of LGBTQ equality have targeted trans and queer youth to score political points, all to distract from the fact that they do not have any solutions to the problems that we face today. They have stooped so low as to try to punish parents criminally for seeking gender-affirming care for their children who need it,” Levine, who was speaking in a personal capacity, said during the town hall.

RACHEL LEVINE’S CLAIM ALL AGREE ON ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE’ IS SLAMMED BY DOCTORS ‘IN HIDING’

박사. Rachel Levine, physician general nominee, is seen at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania May 4, 2015. (REUTERS/Daniel Shanken)

“Every major medical association agrees: gender-affirming care is life-saving, medically necessary, age-appropriate and a critical tool for health care providers,” Levine continued.

POLL ON AMERICANS’ THOUGHTS ON TRANSGENDER ATHLETES DIVIDES TWITTER USERS: ‘CONFIRMS WHAT WE ALL KNOW’

Levine is the first openly transgender U.S. official to hold an office that required a Senate confirmation and has been vocal in support for transgender health care for youths, as well as adults.

면, BANKS SPEARHEAD BILL ALLOWING ADULTS TO SUE DOCTORS WHO TRANSITIONED THEM AS MINORS

The Florida ​​Department of Health released guidance in April advising doctors in the state not to assist transgender teens and children with gender reassignment surgery or prescribe them puberty blockers. The guidance pushed back on federal guidance from the Biden administration and argued that there is a “lack of conclusive evidence” on the safety and psychological impact that hormone treatments have on youths, warning of a “potential for long-term, irreversible effects.”

Protestors in support of transgender rights rally outside the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala., 화요일에, 행진 30, 2021. (Jake Crandall/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Redfern told Fox News Digital this week that Levine’s comment that “Every major medical association” agrees gender-affirming care is life-saving “isn’t data.”

“It’s an appeal to authority that is in stark contrast to the best available evidence,” 그는 말했다.

“The Department of Health is following the evidence. The federal government is following the eminence.”