By Wallace White
President Joe Biden slammed Congress’ defense spending bill Monday over a provision that prevents the Pentagon from picking up the tab for child sex change procedures.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2025 places a prohibition on Department of Defense (DOD) health insurance from covering any transgender operations for minors that could “result in sterilization,” according to the bill. Biden decried the inclusion of the ban as interfering with “parents’ roles to determine the best care for their children” and alleged that it discriminates on the basis of so-called gender identity.
“This section undermines our all-volunteer military’s ability to recruit and retain the finest fighting force the world has ever known by denying health care coverage to thousands of our service members’ children,” the statement reads. “No service member should have to decide between their family’s health care access and their call to serve our Nation.” (RELATED: NCAA Slapped With Lawsuit By Texas AG Ken Paxton Over Their Allowance Of Transgenders In Female Sports)
The move comes even after the Biden administration attempted to distance itself in June from supporting child sex changes, after court documents revealed that Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine attempted to remove age guidelines from World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) care recommendations.
“Adm. Levine shared her view with her staff that publishing the proposed lower ages for gender transition surgeries was not supported by science or research, and could lead to an onslaught of attacks on the transgender community,” an HHS spokesperson told The New York Times in response to the revelations.
The Daily Caller News Foundation previously revealed that top doctors at WPATH acknowledged, and appeared to challenge the risks of irreversible sex change procedures, exclusively obtained footage shows. The doctors also acknowledged the devastating complications that could result from these medical interventions.
One study indicated that sex-change surgery increases suicide risks, rather than reducing them. Federally-funded researchers long suggested that giving kids gender transitions (such as puberty blockers) improves their well-being, but their own research suggests it does nothing to reduce teen suicides. A study finding no benefits from puberty blockers was left unpublished despite the researchers receiving $9.7 million to do their research.
Even a leading advocate of child sex-changes recently admitted to the Supreme Court that so-called “gender affirming care” does not reduce suicide. That advocate conceded to the Supreme Court that “completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender youth, even those not given puberty blockers or other “gender-affirming” treatment, and that “there is no evidence…that this treatment reduces completed suicide.”
The FDA notes that puberty blockers can cause brain swelling and vision loss, and an FDA official who supported giving minors puberty blockers conceded that they actually increase suicidality. Indeed, the “FDA knew ‘gender affirming’ puberty blockers increase ‘suicidality’ in 2017,” reported Just the News.
95% of young transgender people on testosterone develop pelvic floor dysfunction; most have bowel issues and sexual dysfunction. As the Telegraph reported, “Around 87 per cent…had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction…Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.”
