President Trump issued an executive order Tuesday banning child gender transition care, which the order refers to as the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of children.
This from newsmax.com.
The order reads:
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.
Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.
The order applies to individuals younger than 19 years of age, according to the document.
The phrase “chemical and surgical mutilation” within the order means “the use of puberty blockers … to delay the onset or progression of normally timed puberty in an individual who does not identify as his or her sex” as well as “the use of sex hormones, such as androgen blockers, estrogen, progesterone, or testosterone, to align an individual’s physical appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex.”
It also includes “surgical procedures that attempt to transform an individual’s physical appearance to align with an identity that differs from his or her sex or that attempt to alter or remove an individual’s sexual organs to minimize or destroy their natural biological functions.”
According to the executive order:
[T]he blatant harm done to children by chemical and surgical mutilation cloaks itself in medical necessity, spurred by guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), [which the administration says,] lacks scientific integrity.
Agencies are directed to “rescind or amend all policies that rely on WPATH guidance,” and the Health and Human Services secretary is charged with publishing “a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children” who present with gender dysphoria or “other identity-based confusion.”
In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Trump reiterated many of these points, echoing arguments he had made throughout his presidential run:
Our Nation will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called ‘gender affirming care,’ which has already ruined far too many precious lives.
My Order directs Agencies to use every available means to cut off Federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures, that should have never been allowed to take place!
On Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) issued a statement in support of the president’s order, having said:
We all know by now that so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ is anything but caring.
There’s a reason it’s illegal for kids to buy alcohol, a lottery ticket, or join the military. Allowing our young people whose brains aren’t fully developed to undergo a life-altering, irreversible procedure is pure insanity.
This isn’t about politics—this is about good and evil. I’m thankful for President Trump’s commonsense leadership to end this barbaric practice in our country once and for all.
