Dr. Rachel Levine, the first transgender person to be nominated for a Senate-confirmed position in the federal government, was grilled about “genital mutilation” of minor children by a Republican committee member less than an hour into her confirmation hearing to become the nation’s assistant secretary of health. “American culture is down normalizing the idea that minors can be given hormones,” Sen.
Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Thursday, likening standards of care for transgender minors to castration and female circumcision before blaming increasing rates of trans-identifying youth on “the social pressure to conform and do what others do.” “Do you believe minors are capable of making such a life-changing decision of changing one’s sex?” Paul