The U. S. Supreme Court ruled that anyone below the age of 18 must not be subjected to gender reassignment. “Assigning one gender to any child is the policy of the United States of America,” Trump said in a statement.
The order, signed by President Donald Trump, prohibits gender reassignment of any individual under age 19 in the United States of America. “It is the policy of the United States of America that it will not finance, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will vigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,” said Trump in his statement.
Recently Trump attempted to undo the transgender policy of the Biden administration. On Monday, Trump ordered the Pentagon to conduct a study that would effectively see transgender persons excluded from military service.
A day after the president ordered the Pentagon to review whether individuals who underwent any gender-related medical procedures were suitable for military service, it further solidified protections on social fronts: the latest decree states that the federal government must not “fund, sponsor, promote, assist or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a minor from one sex to another.”
The directive instructed the Department of Health and Human Services to review and form a basis for insurance coverage under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, aimed at the repeal of some forms of gender-affirming care, and gave the department a limit of 90 days to establish new best practices that would unground recommendations of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, branded, for want of a better term, as “junk science.”
An ever more vociferous civil rights movement has blamed the current administration for its increasingly comprehensive demonization and marginalization of transgender citizens.
In a press statement, Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center, said, “Access to gender-affirming care can mean life or death for many trans youth and allows them to live authentically.” “It is disgusting that the Trump Administration continues to attack trans people’s right to exist with dignity.”
The Human Rights Campaign cites data showing that, in at least two dozen states, laws restricting gender-affirming medical procedures have been proposed. In fact, most states have long-standing regulatory regimes in place that ban public funds for the payment of gender-transition therapies for Medicaid recidivists and state employees.
Despite his campaign pledges to eliminate certain programs funded by transgender people, Mr. Trump cited specific examples, such as the many American prisons that offered gender-affirming care, which federal law required them to do during their first term.
A federal court was asked Tuesday to stop the ban on transgender military personnel on civil rights grounds.
According to the order on care for minors, “countless children” who have had this type of procedure done will soon “‘ weep in grief’ at the sorry tragedy that they will never give birth to their children or breastfeed their children,” as the procedures were described in the order as “chemical and surgical mutilation.”