{"id":49702,"date":"2023-03-19T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49702"},"modified":"2023-03-19T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:45:29","slug":"let-children-be-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49702","title":{"rendered":"Let Children Be Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a tomboy as a child&#8211;I played softball, I climbed trees, I roller skated, I was always moving. I am sure many of the women who are reading this could say the same thing. Thank God no one ever tried to convince us that we were boys. I wonder if it&#8217;s safe to be a tomboy today.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/saraharnold\/2023\/03\/17\/biden-official-says-changing-kids-genders-will-soon-be-fully-embraced-n2620812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townhall<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>At this point, nothing should be shocking regarding the Biden Administration, not even when it means pushing young kids to undergo life-alternating procedures.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Assistant Secretary of Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Rachel Levine promises that medically changing children&#8217;s gender will be fully &#8220;normalized&#8221; soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>And if that isn&#8217;t twisted enough, Levine continued to say that &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; treatment of transgender kids is supported &#8220;at the highest levels&#8221; of President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;I can say that the children, their families, and you all as their providers have support at the highest levels of the federal government,&#8221; Levine said while speaking at the Pediatric Grand Rounds session in Hartford. &#8220;President Biden supports you \u2026 Vice President [Kamala] Harris supports you. Across the administration, the departments support you,&#8221; Levine said, adding that she talks &#8220;about this topic everywhere I go.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The woke Biden official claimed that critics who aim to end the progressive push of transgenderism on minors are &#8220;ideologically and politically motivated,&#8221; calling them &#8220;unconscionable.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Levine claimed that &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; care is necessary and that hormone and puberty blockers are safe and effective, although\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/preview\/2608192?p=1679070480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u00a0<\/a>supporting this idea is extremely weak.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>However, critics are pushing back against the Left&#8217;s radical push to indoctrinate children.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), a House Doctors Caucus physician member, told Fox News that it is &#8220;reprehensible for a government official \u2014 let alone the assistant U.S. secretary of HHS \u2014 to promote the genital mutilation of minors as becoming a standard practice.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The inmates are running the asylum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a tomboy as a child&#8211;I played softball, I climbed trees, I roller skated, I was always moving. I am sure many of the women who are reading this could say the same thing. Thank God no one ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49702\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13490,16318,11619],"class_list":["post-49702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dr-rachel-levine","tag-gender-affirming-care","tag-townhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49703,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49702\/revisions\/49703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}