Leroy N. Soetoro
2025-02-01 01:30:03 UTC
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/29/trump-signs-order-to-defund-
gender-transitions-for-lgbtq-youth
United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to halt
the funding and promotion of gender transitions for LGBTQ youth.
In his order signed on Tuesday, Trump said the federal government would no
longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support gender transitions
also referred to as gender-affirming care for those aged below 19.
Under the order, the Department of Health and Human Services must take
all appropriate actions to halt gender-affirming care under Medicare,
Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, and publish a review of best
practices for promoting the health of youth with gender dysphoria and
other identity-based confusion within 90 days.
Trumps order also directs agencies to end their reliance on guidance from
the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which
it accused of peddling junk science.
WPATH did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Al Jazeera.
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,
the order says.
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,
sterilisation.
Trumps order covers a range of treatments and procedures for young people
suffering from gender dysphoria which describes the distress felt by
people whose biological sex does not match their gender identity
including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone therapy and surgery.
The medical treatment of transgender youth has been a controversial and
politically divisive issue in the US, where those calling for greater
inclusion of LGBTQ youth have clashed with those expressing concern that
minors are not mature enough to make decisions about potentially life-
altering procedures.
The number of young people diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the US has
surged severalfold in recent years, though only a relatively small
minority of those have undergone medical interventions, according to
various analyses.
An analysis by the Reuters news agency and health technology company
Komodo Health found that 282 minors with a prior diagnosis of gender
dysphoria underwent mastectomies in 2021.
About 4,230 minors received cross-sex hormones and fewer than 1,400
received puberty blockers that year, according to the analysis.
At least 26 US states have passed laws or policies limiting minors access
to gender-affirming care.
In a Gallup poll last year, 61 percent of Americans said they opposed laws
banning psychological support, hormonal treatments, and medical surgeries
for minors, compared with 36 percent in favour.
GLADD, one of the biggest LGBTQ rights organisations in the US, blasted
Trumps order, describing its rhetoric as appallingly inaccurate,
incoherent, and extreme.
Health care for transgender people is supported by every major medical
association. The Trump administrations unhinged obsession with attacking
transgender people and their health care does not reflect medical fact and
does not represent the reality of trans people, youth, and their freedom
to be themselves, and make their own health care decisions, without being
discriminated against and lied about, GLADD said in a statement.
The Trump administrations obsession comes at a high cost for every
American who wants the government to address actual issues like gun
violence, abortion access, and rising costs.
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, described the
order as a brazen attempt to put politicians in between people and their
doctors, preventing them from accessing evidence-based healthcare
supported by every major medical association in the country.
It is deeply unfair to play politics with peoples lives and strip
transgender young people, their families, and their providers of the
freedom to make necessary health care decisions, Robinson said in a
statement.
Leading US medical organisations, including the American Medical
Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have expressed support
for gender-affirming care, though several European countries, including
the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, and France, have taken steps to roll
back access to treatments such as puberty blockers.
Last year, the Cass Review, a landmark review commissioned by the UKs
National Health Service, concluded that the evidence behind medical
treatments for youth with gender dysphoria was remarkably weak and such
interventions should only be taken with extreme caution.
Among other findings, the review said puberty blockers were not found to
relieve gender dysphoria or improve body satisfaction, and evidence
about their effects on psychological wellbeing, cognitive development and
fertility was insufficient or inconsistent.
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gender-transitions-for-lgbtq-youth
United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to halt
the funding and promotion of gender transitions for LGBTQ youth.
In his order signed on Tuesday, Trump said the federal government would no
longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support gender transitions
also referred to as gender-affirming care for those aged below 19.
Under the order, the Department of Health and Human Services must take
all appropriate actions to halt gender-affirming care under Medicare,
Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, and publish a review of best
practices for promoting the health of youth with gender dysphoria and
other identity-based confusion within 90 days.
Trumps order also directs agencies to end their reliance on guidance from
the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which
it accused of peddling junk science.
WPATH did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Al Jazeera.
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,
the order says.
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,
sterilisation.
Trumps order covers a range of treatments and procedures for young people
suffering from gender dysphoria which describes the distress felt by
people whose biological sex does not match their gender identity
including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone therapy and surgery.
The medical treatment of transgender youth has been a controversial and
politically divisive issue in the US, where those calling for greater
inclusion of LGBTQ youth have clashed with those expressing concern that
minors are not mature enough to make decisions about potentially life-
altering procedures.
The number of young people diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the US has
surged severalfold in recent years, though only a relatively small
minority of those have undergone medical interventions, according to
various analyses.
An analysis by the Reuters news agency and health technology company
Komodo Health found that 282 minors with a prior diagnosis of gender
dysphoria underwent mastectomies in 2021.
About 4,230 minors received cross-sex hormones and fewer than 1,400
received puberty blockers that year, according to the analysis.
At least 26 US states have passed laws or policies limiting minors access
to gender-affirming care.
In a Gallup poll last year, 61 percent of Americans said they opposed laws
banning psychological support, hormonal treatments, and medical surgeries
for minors, compared with 36 percent in favour.
GLADD, one of the biggest LGBTQ rights organisations in the US, blasted
Trumps order, describing its rhetoric as appallingly inaccurate,
incoherent, and extreme.
Health care for transgender people is supported by every major medical
association. The Trump administrations unhinged obsession with attacking
transgender people and their health care does not reflect medical fact and
does not represent the reality of trans people, youth, and their freedom
to be themselves, and make their own health care decisions, without being
discriminated against and lied about, GLADD said in a statement.
The Trump administrations obsession comes at a high cost for every
American who wants the government to address actual issues like gun
violence, abortion access, and rising costs.
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, described the
order as a brazen attempt to put politicians in between people and their
doctors, preventing them from accessing evidence-based healthcare
supported by every major medical association in the country.
It is deeply unfair to play politics with peoples lives and strip
transgender young people, their families, and their providers of the
freedom to make necessary health care decisions, Robinson said in a
statement.
Leading US medical organisations, including the American Medical
Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have expressed support
for gender-affirming care, though several European countries, including
the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, and France, have taken steps to roll
back access to treatments such as puberty blockers.
Last year, the Cass Review, a landmark review commissioned by the UKs
National Health Service, concluded that the evidence behind medical
treatments for youth with gender dysphoria was remarkably weak and such
interventions should only be taken with extreme caution.
Among other findings, the review said puberty blockers were not found to
relieve gender dysphoria or improve body satisfaction, and evidence
about their effects on psychological wellbeing, cognitive development and
fertility was insufficient or inconsistent.
--
November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.
The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
eradicated.
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.