Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, was back before members of the Senate yesterday to make his case to be head of the critical government department.
In an exchange with Senator Josh Hawley, Kennedy expressed his opposition to sexually confused minors being allowed to mutilate their bodies.
“We don’t let children drink,” he told the Missouri lawmaker. “We don’t let them drive an automobile. Because they have bad judgment. They are flooded with hormones. Their brains are still in formation. Their sexuality is still in formation. To allow them to make judgements about, that are going to have life-changing, forever implications for the rest of their life at that age are unconscionable.”
Inexplicably, the American Medical Association has supported the destructive policy of permitting children to maim their bodies. They claim doing so will help reduce the risk of suicide.
Dr. Jay Greene, senior research fellow at Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, suggests fair research demonstrates the exact opposite.
“Increasing minors’ access to cross-sex interventions is associated with a significant increase in the adolescent suicide rate,” writes Dr. Greene. “Rather than facilitating access by minors to these medical interventions without parental consent, states should be pursuing policies that strengthen parental involvement in these important decisions with life-long implications for their children.”
Predictably, Dr. Greene’s research elicited a firestorm of opposition from radical academics and activists committed to the popular narrative claiming puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormone treatments are necessary to preserve the mental and physical health of sexually confused children.
Referring to the rule issued by the Biden administration calling for youth treatments, Kennedy said:
“That rule is anti-science. Even more, just from a common sense – if you’re a patient, do you really want somebody performing surgery on you who is morally opposed to that surgery? It doesn’t make any sense.”
Robert F. Kennedy’s nomination has drawn intense interest from a broad spectrum of watchers. Although originally seeking the Democrat nomination for president, the son of the slain United States Attorney General endorsed President Trump in the closing days of the campaign.
At Thursday’s hearing on Capitol Hill, Kennedy made clear he believes every child, especially those who are sexually confused, should be shown dignity and respect.
“They should be loved,” Kennedy said. “Sometimes love means saying no to people.”
For time immemorial, mothers and fathers have followed this fundamental principle. Only fools enable destructive behavior, which is precisely what it is when a child is allowed to mutilate their own body.
This is why Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly strongly supports President Trump’s executive order protecting children from so-called transgender medical interventions:
President Trump’s executive order blocking the mutilation of children is a compassionate and common sense response to the reckless and destructive social reengineering experiments of recent years.
Studies have shown that upwards of 90% of young people who express sexual confusion will eventually self-correct and re-embrace their biological sex.
It’s our obligation as adults to protect our nation’s children, especially those who are vulnerable and often silently crying out for help. It’s unconscionable to exploit them for political gain. Instead, we’re called to nurture, defend and provide them with strong and wise counsel.
Critics of President Trump are claiming this withholds ‘care’ but the exact opposite is happening. To enable and allow physicians to maim young bodies is the ultimate act of heartless carelessness.
While we grieve the necessity of this order, we applaud its implementation. We call upon our Christian brothers and sisters to pray for those suffering from such fundamental and foundational confusion. And may our leaders continue to demonstrate courage and resolve in the face of strong opposition.
Robert F. Kennedy’s testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee wrapped up two days of questioning. A vote on the nominee is expected sometime next week.
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