According to a recently unsealed court document, a trans-identifying Biden official was allegedly behind the push to remove age limits from the official care standards for transgender procedures.

The document in question, unsealed as part of Boe v. Marshall — a case challenging the Alabama law banning certain gender transition-related treatments and procedures — was titled “Appendix A To Supplemental Expert Report Of James Cantor, Ph.D.” In the document, Cantor — a Canadian sex researcher — claimed that trans-identifying Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine pushed for the age restrictions to be removed from any official guidelines.

“Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Rachel Levine strongly pressured WPATH leadership to rush the development and issuance of SOC-8, in order to assist with Administration political strategy,” Cantor wrote of the changes to World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care Version 8 — which omitted previous age recommendations.

The document also included evidence — in the form of communications between WPATH members — that pointed back to Levine as the source of pressure. Most suggested that Levine, born Richard Levine, was pushing to do away with any age limits that could make it easier for states to restrict access to transition-related puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even surgeries.

“I have just spoken to Admiral Levine today, who—as always is extremely supportive of the SOC 8, but also very eager for its release—so to ensure integration in the US health policies of the Biden government. So, let’s crack on with the job!!!” one read.

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Another stated, “I am meeting with Rachel Levine and her team next week, as the US Department of Health is very keen to bring the trans health agenda forward.”

Sarah Boateng, who is Adm. Levine’s chief of staff [said the] biggest concern is the section below in the Adolescent Chapter that lists specific minimum ages for treatment, she is confident, based on the rhetoric she is hearing in DC, and from what we have already seen, that these specific listings of ages, under 18, will result in devastating legislation for trans care. She wonders if the specific ages can be taken out and perhaps an adjunct document could be created that is published or distributed in a way that is less visible than the SOC8, is the way to go.

The issue of ages and treatment has been quite controversial (mainly for surgery) and it has come up again. We sent the document to Admiral Levine … She like [sic] the SOC-8 very much but she was very concerned that having ages (mainly for surgery) will affect access to health care for trans youth and maybe adults too. Apparently the situation in the USA is terrible and she and the Biden administration worried that having ages in the document will make matters worse.

The WPATH members reportedly responded to Levine’s concerns by saying that it was too late in the game to make such changes, but somehow, when the new guidelines were published, the age recommendations had been omitted.

Alec Baldwin’s attorneys went back to court to get the “Rust” involuntary manslaughter case against the actor dismissed due to claims of destruction of the gun in the 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

During a virtual court hearing on Monday, attorneys for the 66-year-old actor argued that when the FBI took a mallet to Baldwin’s Colt .45 revolver during testing of the gun, it destroyed the defense’s case that the gun could have fired due to mechanical issues, CBS News reported.

Baldwin’s attorney John Bash said the government “understood that this was potentially exculpatory evidence and they destroyed it anyway. It’s outrageous and it requires dismissal.”

“This is among the most egregious constellation of facts I’ve ever seen,” he added, Variety noted. “They knew it would be destroyed, and they did nothing to preserve the evidence for the defendant.”

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Prosecutors responded that the gun being damaged was “unfortunate” and argued that the defense can still make its case using other evidence that’s available, adding that the gun was not destroyed, just broken into three pieces.

“The parts are still available,” special prosecutor Erlinda Johnson said. “The fact that this gun was unfortunately damaged does not deprive the defendant of ability to question the evidence.”

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“A review of the evidence in this case leads one to conclude that the exculpatory value of this firearm, in the condition it was in on Oct. 21, 2021, is extremely low,” she added, noting in an interview on that day with investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, “Baldwin himself told OSHA investigators that the gun had no mechanical defects” and said he had already been using it for some time.

“The only problem was that it was … there was a live bullet in the gun. Those were his words,” the prosecutor added. “That could not put law enforcement on notice that this gun had, if you believe their theory, some potential mechanical defects when he was interviewed by law enforcement on Oct. 21, 2021.”

New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said she would make a ruling on the motion to dismiss on Friday and said, “Do not think that that means stop working for trial.”

Baldwin currently awaits trial after being charged with involuntary manslaughter in Hutchins’ death and pleading not guilty to the charge, as previously reported.

In October 2021, the “30 Rock” star was involved in the shooting of Hutchins on the New Mexico film set. The firearm Baldwin was holding discharged a bullet. Baldwin has repeatedly maintained that there was “no trigger pull.”

In April, the film’s weapons supervisor, 26-year-old Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Hutchins.

Baldwin’s trial is set to start July 10, Variety noted. If convicted, the “30 Rock” star faces up to 18 months in prison.