Thu Mar 16, 2023 – 8:10 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona last week pushed a Biden administration official to answer whether or not the federal government is financing transgender interventions for minors through its health benefits packages for federal employees. In response to an accusation of “bullying” the official, Gosar declared that if “fighting against the genital mutilation of children makes me a ‘bully’, so be it,” since “[d]efending innocence will always be worth it.”
Rep. Gosar made the remarks during a March 9 U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing held to review “our nation’s largest employer,” the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Directing his questions to OPM director Kiran Ahuja, Gosar asked whether or not the Federal Employee Health Benefits program funds “the sex change[s] of minors?”
As Ahuja hesitated, Gosar said it should be “either yes or no.”
Ahuja said Gosar’s question was a difficult one to answer directly, “because we provide guidance to carriers to set up programs based on leading medical advice [and] scientific evidence, and those carriers determine the services that they provide.”
Many major U.S. insurance companies cover transgender surgeries and pharmaceutical prescriptions
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