Transgender advocate and Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine pushed to remove age limits from the draft guidelines for medical treatment of people who say they are transgender.
Doctors avoiding malpractice lawsuits is the reason behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health releasing new medical guidelines removing age minimums for children identifying as transgender going through genital mutilation procedures.
Top transgender health group World Professional Association for Transgender Health removed a section about a minimum age for beginning transgender treatments in its new guidance.
A review has been ordered of NHS rules that allow young teens to have transgender medical treatments without parental involvement.
“This was the preamble, if you will, to the transgender movement,” Van Meter said, adding, nevertheless, that the Hopkins program closed down because “it was basically a failure.”
