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. //

The order also targets the alleged science behind the treatments. It calls out the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care Version 8 as "junk science” (The Arguments Supporting 'Gender-Affirming Care' Have Never Been 'Based on the Science' – RedState) and directs all agencies to "rescind or amend all policies that rely on WPATH guidance."

As a kicker, the Department of Justice is directed to investigate deceptive practices or misinformation regarding the long-term effects of gender-affirming care, including potential fraud or violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. //

anon-o6eq
7 hours ago
Many countries in Europe have already taken this position after the Cass Report was released in England. Cass found that most of the science supporting child transitions was based on faulty data and an inappropriate relationship between WPATH and the organization doing their research to support their recommendations. Cass found that as many as 95% of kids who identify as trans as children will revert to their biological sex by the time they are adults if they are not treated with anything other than talk therapy. That is now the way most major European countires treat children who identity as trans - psychotherapy only until they are 18.

C. S. P. Schofield anon-o6eq
5 hours ago
This lines up with something my late mother was told in the 1950’s. She was being hired as a history teacher at a girls school (private) and her headmistress told her that many girls going through puberty would be uncomfortable with their bodies and blossoming sexuality. Some would develop same sex crushes, and some would experiment with masculine identity. The best course was to treat all this quietly as normal. Don’t make a fuss unless there’s a serious problem. The vast majority would get over the phase.