Donald Trump has issued an executive order that would restrict federal funding and support for gender-affirming care for transgender minors and some adults, which he described as harmful and irreversible.
BREAKING: Trump signs executive order banning federal support of gender-affirming care for anyone under 19 https://t.co/GGbTLGn4u6
— The Advocate (@TheAdvocateMag) January 28, 2025
From The Advocate:
The order, titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” targets the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and surgeries for anyone under 19, referring to them as “chemical and surgical mutilation.”
It directs federal agencies to rescind policies supporting such treatments, withdraw funding from institutions that provide them, and enforce existing laws limiting access to these procedures.
The order requires the Department of Health and Human Services to review and revise medical guidelines related to gender-affirming care.
The order also instructs the Defense Department to exclude coverage for gender-affirming care under TRICARE, the military’s healthcare system.
From the executive order:
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”
“This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
As I have noted many times in the past, every single major medical organization, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the American Psychiatric Association supports the provision of age-appropriate, gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people.
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order threatening to override families with transgender youth and shut down access to gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 nationwide. This order will not take immediate effect, and we will not allow this policy to stand.
— ACLU (@aclu.org) January 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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