Biden administration goes all-in on teenage trans surgeries despite huge risks

https://www.washingtonexaminer...s-despite-huge-risks

The Biden administration has unfurled a transgender medical policy that calls for irreversible procedures on minors that are shown to reduce their life expectancy by as much as 50%.

As the Washington Examiner reported in a series on transgender children, surgery and hormone treatments can have devastating psychological and physical effects, often leading to the early onset of cancer , tumors, strokes, and other diseases, medical research shows.

‘WE ARE JUST GUINEA PIGS’: WOMEN DESCRIBE TRAUMA OF TRANSITIONING AS TEENAGERS

“It was sold as this thing that’s no big deal. If you don’t like a body part, just get rid of it,” said Candace Sharpe , who formerly identified as transgender and had a hysterectomy and mastectomy in her teens. “Now, I have chronic pain all over my chest. I’m stuck on painkillers.”

Dozens of cases were uncovered in which teenagers had debilitating problems due to medical procedures, including a transgender teenager who killed herself by standing in front of a train. She had been taking hormone blockers and testosterone shots after being counseled at high school that this was her correct path in life.

However, the Department of Health and Human Services mentions none of this in its two-page document titled “Gender Affirming Care and Young People.” The document pushes for early medical intervention on children and was released Thursday, a day President Joe Biden proclaimed a “ Transgender Day of Visibility .”

“For 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,” the document said .

Among the list of HHS-approved procedures are mastectomies, hysterectomies, and male genital removal. These are referred simply as “top surgery to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts” and “bottom surgery on genitals or reproductive organs.”



The HHS document stresses that the procedures are safe and needed for transgender well-being:

“Research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender diverse children and adolescents. Because gender-affirming care encompasses many facets of healthcare needs and support, it has been shown to increase positive outcomes for transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents.”

But the president of the American College of Pediatricians disagrees.

Dr. Quentin Van Meter said that while he’s seen a 500% increase over the past decade in transgender children, a revolving door exists on the other end in which people are trying to revert back to their previous selves. The physical harm coming with this has caused European countries such as Sweden and Demark to outlaw procedures on minors.

“Sometimes, they have pain and agony the rest of their lives,” he said. “Blocking puberty in the adolescent does irreversible harm to bone density, and it sterilizes the patient. It’s really irreversible.”

For Sharpe, the battle to be normal again will take a lifetime. She will never be able to have children.

“The doctor sold it like it was worth the risk because, 'You need it,’” she said. “Does anyone really need that kind of surgery, especially a young girl at 17?”

The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as LGBT is 7.1%, according to Gallup . That number jumps significantly to 21% when just focusing on "Generation Z," those born between 1997 and 2003.

I saw no mention of extensive psychological assessment in the article. When this surgery first became available in the late 1960s, extensive social histories and psychological assessment were required. These were all adults and many were not selected due to psychological problems. A lot of these teens need psychotherapy instead.

Anyone that doubts that leftist democrats are sick, twisted people can put that doubt to rest. These people are pure evil.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...mmunities-every-day/

Biden is planning to hugely expand his Catch and Release network at the United States-Mexico border, after ending the Title 42 border control authority, by increasing the number of border crossers and illegal aliens who will be put on buses and flights to American communities.

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the administration would end Title 42 — a broad authority that allows federal immigration officials to quickly return border crossers and illegal aliens to their native countries.

As a result, Biden officials are readily admitting that about half a million border crossers and illegal aliens are expected to show up at the U.S.-Mexico border every month. This is the equivalent of a population the size of Atlanta, Georgia, arriving at the border over the course of just 28 to 30 days.

With an impending flood of illegal immigration, the Washington Post reports that Biden’s top officials are readying an expansion of their Catch and Release network where border crossers and illegal aliens are briefly detained, bused into border towns provided by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) contracted by the federal government, and flown into American communities across the country.

In January 2022, alone, Biden’s administration released more than 62,500 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities. This is in addition to the tens of thousands of illegal aliens who are expected to have successfully entered the U.S., undetected by officials.

This year, experts predict more than 2.1 million will arrive.

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Anyone that doubts that leftist democrats are sick, twisted people can put that doubt to rest. These people are pure evil.

The ghost of Josef Mengele is alive in the Democrat party. This is all about population control. Every "trans" teen become infertile as a result of their transition.

Which one is it sleepy? Relief for the lower/middle class or rich elite's subsidies for Teslas? Pick one.



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Joe calls Jill former VP for Obama.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfr...22/04/02/id/1064038/

President Joe Biden during the commissioning ceremony of the USS Delaware on Saturday referred to first lady Dr. Jill Biden as the then-vice president under the Obama presidency — at a time when he was the vice president.

"I'm deeply proud of the work [Jill is] doing as first lady with Joining Forces initiative she started with Michelle Obama when she was vice president," Biden said, according to a tweet from RNC Research.

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Joe calls Jill former VP for Obama.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfr...22/04/02/id/1064038/

President Joe Biden during the commissioning ceremony of the USS Delaware on Saturday referred to first lady Dr. Jill Biden as the then-vice president under the Obama presidency — at a time when he was the vice president.

"I'm deeply proud of the work [Jill is] doing as first lady with Joining Forces initiative she started with Michelle Obama when she was vice president," Biden said, according to a tweet from RNC Research.

Actually, I think the sentence structure is saying that Michele Obama was VP (instead of First Lady of Obama). It's a mistake, but not the one you mentioned.

flashguy

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Actually, I think the sentence structure is saying that Michele Obama was VP (instead of First Lady of Obama).

flashguy

Correct.

What a dumb shit Biden is.

Imagine if Trump had exhibited a tenth of the obvious signs of mental instability that Biden does. It would be 24/7 on every single news platform.

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki is set to leave her gig later this spring to join MSNBC, according to a new report.

Q: "A Chinese energy company paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter and the president's brother. Is the president confident his family didn't cross any ethical lines?"

BIDEN CHIEF OF STAFF: "Ah, George, the president's confident that his family did the right thing."

video at

https://twitter.com/i/status/1510623566152278016

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chief of staff probably telling the truth. biden is confident his family did the "right thing" by taking $4.8 mil. "right thing" for biden and his family

Another rat jumps off World-Salad-Queen-Kamala's sinking ship:

Another One? Kamala Harris Deputy Chief-Of-Staff Quits

Working for her has got to be absolutely toxic

In reference to SDY's post above.

Biden’s ‘absolute’ defense of Hunter leaves media and Justice Department in a muddle

https://thehill.com/opinion/ju...artment-in-a-muddle/

“We absolutely stand by the president’s comment.” With those words, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield reaffirmed that President Biden maintains his son Hunter Biden did “nothing [that] was unethical” and never “made money” in China.

Those claims appear demonstrably false — and they make the positions of both the media and Attorney General Merrick Garland absolutely untenable.

For the media, the ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden by U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Delaware has presented a growing danger of self-indictment over its prior coverage (or noncoverage). Weiss has called a long line of witnesses before a grand jury, and there is growing expectation of criminal charges against Hunter Biden.

Nothing concentrates the mind as much as a looming indictment.

Thus, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and other media faced the embarrassing prospect of an indictment based on a story they previously suggested was either a nonstory or Russian disinformation. Suddenly, in recent days, they all rushed to declare the story legitimate, 18 months after the New York Post reported it in October 2020.

What quickly emerged, though, was a new narrative: None of this implicates President Biden. On CNN, White House correspondent John Harwood declared, “There is zero evidence that Vice President Biden, or President Biden, has done anything wrong in connection with what Hunter Biden has done.” Anchor Brianna Keilar then added for emphasis that Harwood was making “an important distinction.”

It was important, but not because it was true. While many media figures now willingly admit the legitimacy of Hunter Biden’s abandoned-laptop story, they are avoiding what the emails found on that laptop actually contain. Hundreds of emails appear to detail a multimillion-dollar influence-peddling enterprise by the Biden family, including Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden.

Influence peddling has long been the way Washington’s elite enriches itself. This common source of political corruption involves the relatives of powerful government figures who shake down corporations or countries for access and influence.

The Bidens would seem to be standouts in this common practice, engaging in a virtual family business. James Biden has been accused of marketing his connection to his brother. And in the emails discovered on his abandoned laptop, Hunter Biden practically sold timeshares of his father by dangling meetings and dinners for investors.

The key in any influence peddling scheme is to protect the principal. People apparently were told to avoid directly referring to President Biden. In one email, Tony Bobulinski, then a business partner of Hunter’s, was instructed by Biden associate James Gilliar not to speak of the former veep’s connection to any transactions: “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u [sic] are face to face, I know u [sic] know that but they are paranoid.”

Instead, the emails apparently refer to President Biden with code names such as “Celtic” or “the big guy.” In one, “the big guy” is discussed as possibly receiving a 10 percent cut on a deal with a Chinese energy firm; other emails reportedly refer to Hunter Biden paying portions of his father’s expenses and taxes.

Despite President Biden’s repeated claims he knew nothing about these dealings, Bobulinski has said he personally met with the senior Biden to discuss Hunter Biden’s business activities. Bobulinski had been selected by the family to handle these deals.

As vice president, Joe Biden flew to China on Air Force Two with Hunter Biden, who arranged for his father to meet some of his business interests. Hunter Biden’s financial interest in a Chinese-backed investment firm, BHR Partners, was registered within weeks of that 2013 trip. Yet, President Biden repeatedly insisted that he never discussed such dealings with his son, a claim Hunter Biden has contradicted.

There are emails of Ukrainian and other foreign clients thanking Hunter Biden for arranging meetings with his father. There are photos from dinners and meetings that tie President Biden to these figures, including a 2015 dinner with a group of Hunter Biden’s Russian and Kazakh clients.

It is important to note that when these foreign interests were clamoring to give Hunter Biden millions of dollars, he was, by his own admission, a hopeless addict. In his 2021 memoir, Hunter Biden admits he was “drinking a quart of vodka a day” and “smoking crack around the clock,” up until his father’s 2020 presidential campaign began. So why would Russian, Chinese and other foreign figures give Hunter Biden all of this money, if not to influence his father?

The new narrative suggests that, while Hunter Biden maintained one of the largest influence-peddling schemes in recent history, it did not involve the object of that scheme — his father.

Even if President Biden was not influenced by all of this, it’s hard to believe he didn’t know his son was selling access. In his book, Hunter Biden claims his father repeatedly intervened due to his addictions — and yet we are to believe that Joe Biden did not express curiosity about how his addicted son was raking in millions from foreign sources?

The point is that President Biden really did not have to ask: Hunter Biden had nothing to sell but influence. All President Biden had to do to facilitate such schemes was to be accessible — to allow his family to deliver face-to-face meetings and photo ops.

And that brings us to the untenable position of Garland.

It is hard to imagine a stronger case for a special counsel. Any effort to investigate Hunter Biden’s dealings will lead investigators to encounter repeated references to the president and how he may have benefited from those schemes. At the same time, the president is “absolutely” standing by his denial that his son did anything wrong or made any money from China.

The White House statement this week serves as a reminder to investigators that the president is heavily invested in this narrative and his denial of now-established facts.

This is not to say that Weiss, the U.S. Attorney investigating Hunter Biden, will not be independent in his efforts. However, the concern is the appearance of how a conflict might affect the investigation or limit the scope of any potential charges. Moreover, absent a special counsel, there is unlikely to be a report on these apparent influence peddling schemes.

Garland pledged to protect the Justice Department from such conflicts and to avoid even the appearance of political influence. He now has a president stating that alleged wrongdoing by his son is “absolutely” untrue, including dealings possibly impacting the president personally and financially. If Garland declines to appoint a special counsel, he will absolutely fail on his pledge.

Can't let Trump have a win, no sir

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- Biden administration officials are now seeking ways to boost oil imports from Canada
- But they don’t want to resurrect the Keystone XL pipeline that Biden killed
- Deliberations are in early stages; no clear-cut solutions have emerged.

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This Michael Knowles Twitter video shows Obama, Pelosi, Biden and others. He calls it "Brutal". I call it insane.

https://twitter.com/michaeljkn...lLnLaC4c70_g6zsZvbTQ

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Originally posted by oddball:
This Michael Knowles Twitter video shows Obama, Pelosi, Biden and others. He calls it "Brutal". I call it insane.

https://twitter.com/michaeljkn...lLnLaC4c70_g6zsZvbTQ

look who everyone is gravitating toward stage left, says it all

^^^^^^^^

Yeah, his hands tell us either that he was expecting a hug from Pelosi or someone, or a gesture of "WTF" as he stumbles about on stage all by himself. This clip really shows how way off this whole POTUS situation is. Crazy.