Fri Mar 31, 2023 – 1:31 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – House Republicans are calling for the ouster of four military doctors who endorsed “sex change” procedures for children as young as seven years old, in the latest display of the Biden administration’s ongoing transformation of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Last month, the American Public Health Association’s American Journal of Public Health published an article coauthored by Drs. Thomas Baxter, David Klein, and Natasha Schvey of Travis Air Force Base, and Dr. Noelle Larson of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (the fifth author, Dr. Christina Roberts, is not affiliated with a military institution).
It argues that “children can begin participating in their medical decision-making as early as age seven years,” including their exercising of “an inherent ability and right” to cross-sex hormones and gender “reassignment” surgeries, which they suggest could actually be a boon to military force readiness.
The Daily Caller reports that on March 28, Republican Reps. Mary Miller of Illinois, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, and Brian Babin of Texas wrote a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin urging for the Pentagon-affiliated physicians to be removed.
“If DOD advocates for the
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