Biden says he backs ‘gender-affirming’ healthcare and slams Republicans trying to ban sex changes for children in interview with transgender TikTok activist

• President Joe Biden said during an panel discussion that he doesn’t think states should have the right to regulate sex change surgeries or treatments 
• TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, who is documenting the transition from male to female on the app, was one of the six progressive panelists to speak with Biden
• The trans influencer asked Biden whether states should be able to limit access to ‘gender-affirming treatments’ 
• Biden said: ‘As a moral question and as a legal question, I just think it’s wrong’
• Mulvaney has been living as a woman for less than a year  
• Some feminists accuse her of ‘womanface’ by play-acting parts of womanhood she enjoys, while ignoring the misogyny faced by females on a day-to-day basis

Joe Biden said in an interview with a transgender TikTok star that states shouldn’t have the power to regulate any health care related to a person transitioning from one sex to the other.

The president denounced Republican states that have passed laws attempting to ban or limit sex change surgeries and transition treatments – like hormone blockers – for children who identify as non binary or transgender.

Biden spoke with a panel of six progressive activists for the NowThis News presidential forum on Friday, which aired on Sunday. One of the six panelists was TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney who is documenting their transition from a male to trans woman.

When asked if red states should have the right to pass laws limiting access to gender-affirming treatments, Biden said: ‘I don’t think any state or anybody should have the right to do that.’

‘As a moral question and as a legal question, I just think it’s wrong,’ the president added.

President Joe Biden said during an panel discussion on NowThis News that he doesn’t think states should have the right to regulate gender-affirming surgeries or treatments

TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, who is documenting the transition from male to female on the app, was one of the six progressive panelists to speak with Biden on Friday. The segment aired Sunday 

‘Sometimes they try to block you from being able to access certain medicines, being able to access certain procedures, and so on,’ he continued, referencing Republican-led state bills blocking doctors from performing such treatment, especially when it comes to minors.

‘I mean, no state should be able to do that, in my view. So I feel very, very strongly that you should have every single solitary right including use of your gender-identity bathrooms in public.’

Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Arizona all enacted laws or policies earlier this year restricting youth access to sex change treatments, care and surgeries. In some cases, these laws impose penalties on adults who facilitate access to this care. 

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has long voiced her opposition to transgenderism, was the first lawmaker to publicly weigh in on Biden’s response to Mulvaney.

‘Joe Biden thinks it’s wrong to stop the profit driven medical industry from cutting breasts off 15 yr old girls and castrating teen boys before they are old enough to legally get a tattoo or vote,’ the GOP Georgia lawmaker tweeted.

She added: ‘Democrats are the party of child abuse.’

Mulvaney, 25, started transitioning to female earlier this year.

‘It’s day 222 of being a girl. I’m in Washington D.C., and I’m going to the White House to speak to the President of the United States,’ Mulvaney said in a TikTok from a hotel room while wearing a shirt that says, ‘Don’t mess with trans kids.’

‘You know that phrase, ‘I think I may have girlbossed too close to the sun?’ Well that’s how I feel today,’ Mulvaney continued. ‘Because I get to sit down with Joe Biden and NowThis News, and I get to ask him a few questions surrounding trans issues in the United States and talk to him about my transness, and I really just want to represent my community the best that I can.’

Mulvaney has sparked a backlash against Ulta Beauty following her appearance on a podcast in which she spoke about ‘all things girlhood’

The trans influencer, who has been living as a woman for less than a year, has been accused of ‘womanface’ by some feminists claiming she is play-acting the parts of being a woman she enjoys, while ignoring the misogyny faced by females on a day-to-day basis. Mulvaney (right) was interviewed by gender-fluid hairdresser to the stars, David Lopez (left) on Ulta’s podcast

Three ‘Detransitioners’ who have voiced regret for their decisions

An increasing number of people who have undergone gender-transitional procedures are voicing regret for their choices, with many saying they feel they were influenced into making drastic choices without proper counseling.

 A 32-year-old detransitioner from Massachusetts going by Shape Shifter says he was ‘brain washed’ into removing his penis by staff at Fenway Health and The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, who didn’t warn him of the negative effects of surgery because it was ‘bad for business.’

‘I will never be able to get my penis back which is extremely traumatic for me,’ he said in an August interview. ‘I want it back and I can’t. Sex is traumatic for me now because I’ve had botched surgeries.’ 

Shape Shifter, pictured, says he even dreams about having a penis, while before his first transition he would dream about having a vagina

A 26-year-old from the UK named Sam says she regrets the transition she undertook at 21.

Sam said she made the decision to transition after a mere two-hour counseling session. 

‘I do believe that therapy should be involved at all stages of the transitioning process to help spot and explore red flags that may appear in someone’s transitional journey.

‘I also think more information should be given to individuals to make sure that their informed consent is truly informed.

Sam (pictured after her mastectomy) is now warning others of the dangers of going through gender transition too quickly without proper therapeutic support

Alia Ismail, a 27-year-old from Michigan, is detransitioning after becoming a male at just 18.

She legally changed her name to Issa in August 2015 and underwent a double mastectomy in February 2016. 

But after realizing she wanted to de-transition, the 27-year-old stopped taking male hormones in February 2021 and is going by the name Alia again.

Alia Ismail, 27, pictured as both a male and a female

GOP lawmakers pushing legislation that would regulate gender-affirming surgeries and treatment argue they are dangerous and could cause irreversible changes in younger patients.

Most legislation in red states have focused on minors, not adults.

‘I think that it’s really important that we continue to speak out about the basic fundamental rights of all human beings,’ Biden said later in his conversation with Mulvaney.

‘And the idea that what’s going on in some states, I won’t get into the politics of it, but in some states, it’s just, it’s outrageous, and I think it’s immoral,’ the president added. ‘The trans part’s not immoral, what they’re trying to do to trans persons is immoral.’

Mulvaney is documenting ‘firsts’ as a woman in a series called ‘days of girlhood’ on TikTok, where her account has garnered more than 8.3 million followers.

When arriving at the White House on Friday, Mulvaney also documented the day on TikTok.

Mulvaney recently faced controversy after many called for a boycott of Ulta Beauty, which hosted her on their ‘The Beauty of …’ podcast on October 13.

The influencer, who has been living as a woman for less than a year, has been accused of ‘womanface’ by some feminists claiming she is play-acting the parts of being a woman she enjoys, while ignoring the misogyny faced by females on a day-to-day basis.

As of this summer, 15 states introduced at least two dozen bills that would impose some sort of restrictions to ‘gender affirming’ surgeries or treatments, according to a Freedom for All Americans tracker.

Provisions in some of the proposed legislation include, but are not limited to criminalization of healthcare professionals who provide transgender treatments to minors, penalizing of parents aiding in youth access to this care and a limitation on insurance coverage of gender affirming services.

In some cases the language would classify allowing or aiding a child in receiving treatment to permanently change sex characteristics as child abuse.

A major GOP initiative is making sure that no state funds are used for such services.

Republicans and right-leaning activists are mostly concerned with the affect these surgeries are having on children who choose to transition and then later regret the choice they made as a minor.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) suspended gender altering surgeries earlier this month amid outrage over claims the hospital ‘chemically castrates’ minors for financial gain.

The center confirmed it was freezing all ‘gender affirmation surgery’ on underage patients pending a review of their processes, in response to calls from Tennessee lawmakers to investigate the hospital.

VUMC came under fire last month after conservative activist Matt Walsh released a 2018 video showing Dr. Shayne Taylor – an LGBTQ specialist at the hospital – touting transgender surgeries as ‘huge money makers’ for the hospital.

Walsh also compiled a report of his own investigation into VUMC’s trans program which found the hospital ‘drugs, chemically castrates and performs double mastectomies on minors.

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