President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday, which was aimed at cutting federal support for some types of gender-suit care, for those under 19 years, security for transgender people across the country His latest step was to return.
“This is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, or support the so -called 'infection' of a child from one child to another, and it will implement all the laws that prohibited or It is limited. These are destructive and life-changing processes.
The order involves gender-affirmation care that includes puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and surgical processes.
This order gives instructions that federally operated insurance programs including trkeers for military families and MedicaidFor this type of care, exclude coverage and call the Department of Justice to protest against the system and call the law strictly.
Medicade programs in some states cover gender-suit care. The new order shows that the practice may end, and targets hospitals and universities that receive federal funds and provide care.
In the executive order, using words like language-“mamming,” “sterilizing” and “mutuality”-what is specific for gender-confirmation care in the US. It also labels the guidance of the World Professional Association for transgender health as “junk science”.
On his true social platform, Mr. Trump called gender-suit care “barbaric medical procedures”.
Prominent medical groups such as the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics are used for care.
Young people who constantly identify as a gender that differs from their gender at birth, it is evaluated by a team of professionals first. Some may try a social infection, including changing hairstyle. Some can also get puberty blockers or hormones later. Surgery is extremely rare for minors.
Kelly Robinson, president of the human rights campaign, said, “It is very inappropriate to play politics with people's lives and to do politics with freedom to make necessary health care decisions to transgender youth, their families and their providers.”
The order encourages the Congress to adopt a law that allows people to receive gender-confirmation and regret it to prosecute the providers, or their parents.
It also directs the Department of Justice to prioritize priority to the investigating states that protect the gender-suit care and “facilitates stripping from parents” who oppose treatment for their children . Some democratic-controlled states have adopted laws that want to protect doctors who provide gender-suit care to patients that travel from states where it is banned for minors.
Lambda Legal promised Swift legal action.
Michelle Lee Garte, a trans woman, whose teenage child only partially identifies as a girl and they/they use pronouns, said that such policies aim to eradicate trans people from public life. , But will never succeed. Her child has not chosen to carry forward a medical infection, but the mother of the State College, Pennsylvania said she would not stop fighting to preserve that option for her children and others.
“I will always support the needs of my child, whatever policies or what can come … even if it means trouble for me,” Lee Garat said.
For the Havel Hall, taking an 18 -year -old first year student at the University of East Washington, Testosterone not only replaced their body, but dramatically improved their experience with depression. With that treatment now in danger, the hall said that it is worried that descending testosterone will damage his mental health.
“I will survive, but I won't live,” the hall said. “I will not be living my life in a productive way. I can guarantee that if I was showing them, I will fail in all my classes.”
The transgender people and the Biden administration that protects their care by Mr. Trump is the latest by Mr. Trump to reverse the policies. On Monday, Mr. Trump directed the Pentagon to make a review, which he is likely to happen. Forbidden from military service,
The language of that order states that identifying as a gender that is “incompatible” with someone's biological sex struggles with a soldier's commitment to a respectable, true and disciplined lifestyle, even That even in someone's personal life, the soldiers who do so can not be satisfied.
A group of active-duty military personnel sued an executive order on Tuesday.
Sparta Pride, a non -profit organization for trans service members and veterans, released one statement Saying this: “Members of transgender service have been openly served for almost ten years, and currently play important roles in every branch and characteristic, including pedestrians, aviation, nuclear engineering, law enforcement and military intelligence, special Several years of training and expertise are required.
Hours after assuming office last week, Mr. Trump signed another order, who attempts to define sex only as a male or female, transgender, nonbinary or intersections do not recognize people or the idea. Is that the penis may be liquid. Already, the state department forced transgender people to apply for travel documents with markers that do not match their identity.
Mr. Trump said that he would address these issues during his campaign last year, and his actions could prove widely divisive.
In the November elections, voters were likely to oppose the support laws, which ban gender-confusion for minors under 18 years of age, such as puberty and hormone therapy, which, which is a AP Votekast According to transgender, we identify. About half of the voters, 52%, were opposed, but 47% said they were in favor.
Mr. Trump's voters were more likely to support the ban on transgender care: About 6 of the Trump voters took favor to such laws.
“It is very clear that this order is not to protect anyone in this country in combination with other orders, which we have seen in the last one week, but all ages from all areas to transgender people of all areas solo-mind To get out of. For civilian life, “Harper Seldin said, a employee lawyer for the LGBTQ and HIV project of the American Civil Liberty Union.
Celdin stated that the ACLU is reviewing the order “to understand whether anything, if there is any immediate effect, then what is needed to do through continuous agency action.”
Even transgender people have gained visibility and acceptance on some fronts, they have become the major goals for social conservators. In recent years, at least 26 states have adopted laws prohibiting or restricted gender-affirmation medical care for transgender minors. Most of the states face cases, which includes a single one on the Tennessy's ban that is pending before the US Supreme Court.
Republican-controlled states have also moved to transgender women and girls to compete in women or girls game and determine which bathrooms transgender people can use, especially in schools.
Shelby Chestnut, Executive Director of Transgender Law Center, said, “These policies are not serving anyone.” “They are only causing confusion and fear for all people.”