President Trump signed an executive order aimed at restricting access to gender-affirming medical care for minors, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery. The order prohibits federal funding for such care, restricts grants to medical institutions, and directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations ending these treatments for minors. It also calls for the rescission of guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
President Donald Trump signed a broad executive order targeting transition-related medical care for minors Tuesday. The order, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” intends to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care — including puberty blockers , hormone therapy and surgery — for minors, which it defines as those younger than 19.
, a nonprofit association dedicated to transgender medical care that issues guidance that is widely used by health care professionals. “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 executive order states, using inflammatory language to describe transition-related medical care.
and other medical organizations recommend that a child receive therapy and social transition, or changing their hairstyle, clothing, name and pronouns. Once a child begins puberty, they may start puberty blockers if they have persistent gender dysphoria, which is the medical term for the severe emotional distress caused by the misalignment between one’s gender identity and birth sex.
, arguing that it “lacks scientific integrity,” and directs the secretary of HHS to “publish a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion.
did not immediately return a request for comment. Half a dozen studies in recent years have found that transition-related care improves minors’ mental health and reduces suicide rates. However, in December, the United Kingdom indefinitely banned new prescriptions of puberty blockers to treat minors for gender dysphoria.
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