President Trump signed on Tuesday an executive order aimed at reducing federal support for certain types of care affirming gender for people under 19, his last movement to reverse protections for transgender people throughout the country.
“It is the policy of the United States that will not finance, sponsor, promote, help or support the so -called” transition “of one child from one sex to another, and will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive procedures and alterators of Life, “says the order.
The order covers the attention affirmed by the genre that includes puberty blockers, hormonal replacement therapy and surgical procedures.
The order directs that insurance programs administered by the Federal Government, including Tricare for Military Families and Disease insuranceIt excludes the coverage of such attention and calls to the Department of Justice that vigorously seek litigation and legislation to oppose the practice.
Medicaid programs in some states cover the attention affirmed by gender. The new order suggests that the practice could end, and points to hospitals and universities that receive federal money and provide attention.
Language in the executive order, using words such as “mutilating”, “sterilizing” and “mutilation”, contradicts what is typical for the attention affirmed by gender in the United States. It also labels the orientation of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as “Baneta Sciences”.
In his social platform of truth, Trump called for the attention affirmed by the genre “Barbarian medical procedures.”
The main medical groups, such as the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, support access to care.
Young people who identify persistently as a genre that differs from their sex assigned to birth are evaluated by a team of professionals. Some may test a social transition, which implies changing a hairstyle or pronouns. Some later can also receive puberty blockers or hormones. Surgery is extremely rare for minors.
“It is deeply unfair to play politics with people’s lives and strip the transgender young Robinson
The order encourages Congress to adopt a law that allows those who receive attention affirming gender and regrets that he regrets her, or his parents, demand suppliers.
It also orders the Department of Justice to prioritize the investigating states that protect access to the attention that gender affirms and “facilitates the elimination of parents custody” that oppose treatments for their children. Some states controlled by Democrats have adopted laws that seek to protect doctors who provide attention to patients traveling from the states where they are prohibited for minors.
Legal Lambda promised rapid legal action.
Michel Lee Garrett, a trans woman whose teenage son only partially identifies as a girl and uses they/they pronouns, said such policies aim to erase trans people from public life but will never succeed. His son has not chosen to follow a medical transition, but the mother of State College, Pennsylvania, said he will not stop fighting to preserve that option for his son and others.
“I will always support my son’s needs, regardless of what policies can be in his place or what may come … even if it meant problems for me,” said Lee Garrett.
For Howl Hall, a 18 -year -old student at Eastern Washington University, taking testosterone not only changed his body but also dramatically improved his experience with depression. With that treatment now under threat, Hall told him that he worries that leaving testosterone would damage his mental health.
“I would be alive, but I wouldn’t be living,” Hall said. “I would not be living my life in a productive way. I can guarantee that I would be failing in all my classes if it even appeared to them.”
The impulse is the last one by Mr. Trump to reverse the Biden administration policies that protect transgender people and their care. On Monday, Mr. Trump ordered the Pentagon to make a review that will probably lead them to be prohibited from military service.
The language of that order declared that identifying as a genre that is “inconsistent” with biological sex “conflicts with the commitment of a soldier with an honorable, true and disciplined lifestyle, even in the personal life of one” and that the soldiers who do it “cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.”
A group of active duty military personnel sued the executive order on Tuesday.
Sparta Pride, a non -profit organization for members and veterans of the Trans Service, launched a statement Saying: “Transgender service members have been openly serving for almost ten years, and current They require specialized training and experience.
Hours after assuming the position last week, Trump signed another order that seeks to define sex as only man or woman, without recognizing transgender, non -binary or intersex people or the idea that gender can be fluid. That has already turned out that the State Department stops issuing passports with a gender marker “X”, which forces transgender people to request travel documents with markers that do not coincide with their identities.
Trump said he would address these problems during his campaign last year, and his actions could be widely divisive.
In the November elections, voters were a little more likely to oppose the support laws that prohibit the medical treatment that the gender affirms, such as puberty blockers and hormonal therapy, for children under 18 years They identify as transgender, according to the detection of AP votes. About half of the voters, 52%, opposed, but 47% said they were in favor.
Trump voters were much more likely to support transgender care prohibitions: around 6 out of 10 Trump voters favored such laws.
“It is very clear that this order, in combination with the other orders that we have seen during the past week, are destined not to protect anyone in this country, but to expel transgender people from all ages of all ages of life Civic, “said Harper Seldin, lawyer for the LGBTQ & HIV project of the American civil liberties.
Seldin said the ACLU is reviewing the order “to understand what, if something, has an immediate effect versus what should go through the continuous action of the agency.”
Although transgender people have gained visibility and acceptance on some fronts, they have become important objectives for social conservatives. In recent years, at least 26 states have adopted laws that restrict or prohibit the medical care that gender for transgender minors affirms. Most of these states face demands, including one on the prohibition of Tennessee that is pending before the United States Supreme Court.
The states controlled by Republicans have also moved to prevent transgender women and girls from competing in women or girls sports and dictating which baths can use transgender people, particularly in schools.
“These policies do not serve anyone,” said Shelby Chestnut, executive director of the Transgender Law Center. “They are only creating confusion and fear for all people.”
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