“There is substantial misinformation about gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals,” Levine said in a video from earlier this year that resurfaced on social media last week.

Levine was addressing the Federation of State Medical Boards in New Orleans when she blamed data associating treatments and surgeries on transgender youth to higher risks of death and suicide on an “onslaught of anti-LGBTQIA+ actions at the state level across the United States.” Levine also labeled this so-called “misinformation” as “dangerous to the public health.”

Levine is using semantics and hyperbole to effectively control and shutdown the debate around quite graphic and irreversible treatments for minors, just as the progressive left has done with abortion. We as the taxpaying public must support these procedures. We must even pay for them; however, we must never speak of what is actually involved (surgery and irreversible hormone treatments) with them because people will die, or something.

Levine must be held accountable — in front of Congress, on the record — and answer how exactly and specifically the American public is being “misinformed” about physical and mental medical treatments of minors who believe they are non-binary. What does transition involve, exactly? Levine needs to be specific. How are irreversible hormone and puberty treatments being mischaracterized? Does Levine believe in top or bottom surgery for minors, and are medical centers that perform such procedures misinforming the public writ large about what those surgeries involve (such as the removal of premature breasts or genitals) and how the human body functions afterwards?