Former President Donald Trump has issued an executive order prohibiting gender transition procedures for minors in the United States.
In a statement released on Wednesday, he announced that the order strictly bans medical interventions such as chemical castration and surgical procedures aimed at altering a child’s gender.
Trump further emphasized that the government will no longer provide funding, sponsorship, promotion, or any form of support for what is referred to as “gender-affirming care.”
The statement reads, “Today, it was my great honor to sign an Executive Order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of America. Our Nation will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called “gender affirming care,” which has already ruined far too many precious lives.
“My Order directs Agencies to use every available means to cut off Federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures, that should have never been allowed to take place!