President Trump has issued an executive order prohibiting the use of federal funds for pediatric transgender procedures. The order, titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” and posted to the White House website Tuesday afternoon, says:
Federal health insurance programs, such as Federal Employee Health Benefits, Postal Service Health Benefits, and TriCare, do not cover the treatments.
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The order is very comprehensive. It prohibits federal funds, support, or promotion of pediatric gender-affirming medical interventions. Included in that is a directive that medical institutions that engage in pediatric transgender treatments will lose federal research and education grants.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. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.
Countless 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. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ 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.
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.
Federal health insurance programs, such as Federal Employee Health Benefits, Postal Service Health Benefits, and TriCare, do not cover the treatments.
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