The Florida Division of Wellness slammed U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine for "inadequately tried character assassination" about modern comments celebrating "gender-affirming care" for youths and decrying "opponents of LGBTQ equality" who have "specific trans and queer youth to rating political details."

"The Surgeon Typical is opposed to experimental and irreversible health-related treatment plans on kids and youngsters that suffer from gender dysphoria," Florida Department of Wellbeing spokesman Jeremy T. Redfern told WHD News Electronic. "The plan that this helps make any individual at the Section of Wellness an ‘opponent of LGBTQ equality’ is practically nothing a lot more than a badly tried character assassination."

Redfern was responding to reviews from Levine very last 7 days in the course of a Satisfaction Thirty day period City Corridor live-streamed by the Democratic Countrywide Committee. 

"Opponents of LGBTQ equality have focused trans and queer youth to rating political factors, all to distract from the actuality that they do not have any remedies to the challenges that we facial area today. They have stooped so small as to check out to punish moms and dads criminally for in search of gender-affirming care for their small children who will need it," Levine, who was speaking in a individual ability, claimed for the duration of the town corridor.

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"Each important healthcare association agrees: gender-affirming treatment is existence-conserving, medically needed, age-ideal and a important software for overall health care vendors," Levine continued. 

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Levine is the very first brazenly transgender U.S. official to keep an office environment that required a Senate affirmation and has been vocal in assistance for transgender overall health treatment for youths, as well as adults. 

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The Florida ​​Department of Wellness launched advice in April advising medical practitioners in the point out not to help transgender teens and small children with gender reassignment surgery or prescribe them puberty blockers. The advice pushed back on federal steerage from the Biden administration and argued that there is a "lack of conclusive proof" on the safety and psychological influence that hormone treatment plans have on youths, warning of a "opportunity for extended-expression, irreversible effects."

Protestors in assist of transgender rights rally outdoors the Alabama Point out Property in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (Jake Crandall/The Montgomery Advertiser through WHD)

Redfern advised WHD News Electronic this week that Levine’s comment that "Just about every main professional medical affiliation" agrees gender-affirming treatment is existence-preserving "isn’t details."

"It’s an charm to authority that is in stark distinction to the greatest readily available evidence," he claimed. 

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"The Office of Well being is following the evidence. The federal federal government is next the eminence."