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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday banning child gender transition care, blocking the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of minors.
Trump posted about the order on his Truth Social account following the announcement.
“Today, it was my great honor to sign an Executive Order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of America. 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,” Trump wrote.
“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!” he added.
The order applies to anyone under 19 years of age, including puberty blockers and surgeries.
“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,” the order read.
“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,” it continued.
Mark Trammell, the executive director and general counsel of the Center for American Liberty, applauded Trump’s action.
“President Trump is to be commended for his incredible leadership protecting vulnerable children from the gender industrial complex,” Trammell said. “This executive order rightly distances federal agencies from the discredited World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) while also withholding federal funding from institutions that chemically and surgically mutilate kids.”
“It is pathetic that Joe Biden lacked the moral and intellectual clarity to issue such an executive order, instead elevating politics over the health of vulnerable children,” he added.
Approximately two dozen states have enacted similar bans for minors, with the Supreme Court hearing a case challenging a related law in Tennessee.