Trump's week in review: Executive orders on public education, ending child mutilation and protecting parental rights
2. Cracking down on gender transition procedures for minors
Trump signed an executive order Tuesday committed to “protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation,” referring to body-mutilating gender transition surgeries that work to transform an individual’s physical appearance to align with their biological sex as well as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
“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 these destructive and life-altering procedures,” the order stated.
The order contained instructions for the heads of executive branch agencies, asking them to “take appropriate steps to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” and “rescind or amend all policies” that rely on guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which encouraged the performance of gender transition procedures on minors.
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Trump directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to “take all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” using “regulatory and sub-regulatory actions,” “publish a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion” and “issue new guidance protecting whistleblowers” who report the performance of gender transition procedures on children.
The order’s instructions to the U.S. Department of Defense seek to ensure that coverage for gender transition procedures for minors is excluded from TRICARE, the healthcare program administered by the department. It also calls for the removal of coverage for the procedures from Federal Employee Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits.
Trump tasked the U.S. Department of Justice with enforcing “laws against female genital mutilation across all American States and Territories” as well as taking action against entities “that may be misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation.”
The order also asked the DOJ to investigate “so-called Sanctuary States that facilitate stripping custody from parents who support the healthy development of their own children” because they oppose the performance of gender transition procedures on them.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
