President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday protecting children from irreversible gender transition procedures, calling them a âstain on our Nationâs history.â
The order describes the transgender procedures that doctors and activists have pushed upon children in recent years, and states that the United States will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the attempted gender transition of a child, promising that it will ârigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.â
âAcross 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 childâs sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,â the order states. âThis dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nationâs history, and it must end.â
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Full executive order:
Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:SectionâŚ
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âCountless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding,â the order continues. âMoreover, these vulnerable youthsâ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.â
Significantly, it also describes the âblatant harmâ done to children by the flawed guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization that âlacks scientific integrity,â and tells parents that their children will kill themselves if they do not obtain so-called âgender-affirming care.â
The order refers to WPATH as âjunk science.â
Within 90 days of the executive orderâs signing, it states, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will publish a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of kids with gender dysphoria or other identity-based confusion. Trumpâs order also directs the heads of his agencies to â immediately take appropriate steps to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.â
The order puts the responsibility on HHS to âtake all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.â