After The World's Worst Debate Performance, Biden Announces That He's Screwing Over Trans Youth
Biden spokesperson reveals in statement that the administration believes gender affirming surgeries “should be limited to adults.”
by Mira Lazine
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In a shocking turn of events, the Biden administration has revealed earlier this week that it is aligning itself with wannabe groypers by throwing transgender youth to the wolves.
In a statement to The 19th, a rare newsroom that isn’t infested by TERFs, a spokesperson for the administration said of gender affirming surgeries, “These are deeply personal decisions, and we believe these surgeries should be limited to adults. We continue to support gender-affirming care for minors, which represents a continuum of care, and respect the role of parents, families, and doctors in these decisions.”
This comes after likely soon-to-be former President Joe Biden had the worst polling results following a political debate in over thirty years, somehow performing worse than a literal proto-fascist. Having once done a so-called grassroots campaign that just happened to be backed by multimillionaires, some donors are now saying in angry, all-caps rants that we need a “Dembargo” against Biden. Even former political allies of Biden are now calling for the allegedly mentally declining 81-year-old (the oldest president ever in office) to resign.
In the fallout from this debate, one of the ways Biden chose to respond to concerns about his fitness for president is to alienate some of the most marginalized voters in the country.
The announcement comes after the New York Times, one of many large newsrooms that is infested by TERFs, put out an article that alleged the Biden administration had pushed for gender affirming care to remove age limits for surgeries in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)’s latest guidelines. This article, however, relied entirely on the word of an anti-trans activist and failed to investigate the allegations made by the activist.
The article, written by the outlet’s favorite cisgender enemy of transgender care, Azeen Ghorayshi, also failed to mention that the activist - Dr. James Cantor - has zero professional experience working in transgender care. His opinion on transgender issues was deemed worthless by a judge who reportedly gave it “very little weight.” Cantor’s experience is instead in the field of pedophilia research, where he’s been disturbingly closely aligned with some fringe views that pedophiles are just as marginalized as LGBTQ+ people, and should be added as a separate letter to the acronym.
Daily Femail is awaiting comment from outraged conservatives over Cantor’s views. However, none appear to exist. Meanwhile, conservatives continue to call trans people groomers for being in a 5 foot vicinity of any child. This story will be updated once the hypocrisy has been resolved.
The New York Times article gave particular focus to allegations surrounding Admiral Rachel Levine, who is a transgender woman. It claimed that she pushed for the abolition of age limits on surgery, to which a Department for Health and Human Services spokesperson said in a clarifying New York Times story, “Adm. Levine shared her view with her staff that publishing the proposed lower ages for gender transition surgeries was not supported by science or research and could lead to an onslaught of attacks on the transgender community.”
Gender affirming surgeries for minors are exceedingly rare, and are generally only done in a select few hundred cases every year, something the Biden administration acknowledged. The majority of these are top surgeries done on transmasculine youth who have already demonstrated years upon years of persistence in their gender identity, and who are seen as particularly at risk of physical harm if these surgeries are not done. Opposition to these surgeries is commonly regarded by advocates as a stepping stone to being against even more forms of gender affirming care and attacking even more trans people.
The question remains, does the Biden administration want trans kids to kill themselves?
In an additional statement made to The 19th, the Biden spokesperson emphasized that “transgender children have been the victims of unacceptable bullying, hate and partisan laws that target them for who they are.” The spokesperson also quoted a statement Biden gave a year ago in which he said, “It’s wrong that extreme officials are pushing hateful bills targeting transgender children, terrifying families, and criminalizing doctors. These are our kids. These are our neighbors. It’s cruel and it’s callous.”
Biden’s trans kids and neighbors may now be the target of cruel and callous attacks on all sides of the political aisle. While he has performed numerous acts in support of the transgender community, like writing empty calls for support and doing the bare minimum in pushing for the Department of Justice to oppose specific discriminatory bills, many don’t feel that he’s doing enough, including those that previously said they will vote for him.
In light of the numerous calls for Biden to drop out of the presidential race during one of modern history’s worst presidential debate performances and dissatisfaction from progressives about his recent actions on transgender care, it’s unclear how the most powerful man in the world is going to proceed.
Will he capitulate to pressure from conservative Democrats and go further in replicating Trump’s position on social issues, will he step down and leave Vice President Kamala Harris to take over the race, or will he turn around and give a resounding victory while delivering actions that some say are currently similar to Trump in the realm of immigration, foreign policy, and even personal ethics?
It may be that history will tell us just how much blood he has on his hands.
Mira Lazine is a freelance journalist covering transgender issues, politics, and science. She can be found on Twitter, Mastodon, and BlueSky, @MiraLazine