RICHMOND, Va., June 27,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Do No Harm, the nation's
leading medical watchdog group, launched a campaign to fire
Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Rachel Levine
following bombshell reports revealing Levine pressured the
World Professional Association for Transgender Health
(WPATH) to remove age restrictions from standards of
care resulting in children subjected to unscientific,
irreversible, life-altering medications and surgeries.
Newly unsealed documents publish emails showing Levine
pressured WPATH to remove the age limits due to political concerns,
despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting the change. The
emails are excerpts from legal filings in a federal lawsuit that
opposes Alabama's ban on
gender-affirming care.
In less than 24 hours since the campaign launched, Do No Harm
received more than 1,000 signatures on a petition to get Levin
to resign immediately or be fired.
Do No Harm's petition reads, in part: "Levine's demands were
politically motivated and showed no concern for medical evidence or
ethics. As the documents show, Levine worried that age restrictions
would cause more states to pass laws protecting children ...
Rachel Levine has harmed children by
intervening in the development of medical guidelines. We call on
Rachel Levine to resign immediately.
Failing that, we call on President Biden to fire Rachel Levine."
Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley
Goldfarb condemned Levine and the Biden Administration in a
statement:
"Rachel Levine and the Biden
Administration ignored science and subjected children to life
altering experimental medical treatments in the name of radical
politics. Their unscientific pressure campaign against WPATH to
remove age-based guidance for transgender surgeries that risked
harming thousands of children. Do No Harm is calling on Levine to
resign immediately, or be fired, for putting politics over
patients."
Do No Harm, established in April
2022, has rapidly gained recognition and made significant
strides in its mission to safeguard healthcare from ideological
threats. With more than 8,000 members, including doctors, nurses,
physicians, and concerned citizens across all 50 states and in 14
countries, DNH has achieved more than 9,700 media hits in top-tier
publications and garnered widespread attention through numerous
broadcast news appearances.
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