By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-28 23:28:46 | Updated at 2025-01-30 08:40:33
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday banned federal funding for transgender sex-changes for minors, adding to his ongoing flood of executive orders after taking office.
The president signed an executive order condemning the practice of sex transition surgeries for minors, noting that 'countless' children regretted the surgeries that 'mutilated' and trapped them into fighting 'a losing war with their own bodies.'
'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 executive order from Trump read.
The president is acting quickly to roll back efforts by the Biden administration to extend federal benefits for children
The White House noted in a memo that four out of five children outgrew feelings of gender dysphoria, without costly and irreversible surgeries they later learned to regret.
Prior to taking office, Trump promised that on 'Day one' of his administration that he would end the 'transgender lunacy' in the federal government.
''The left-wing gender insanity being pushed in our children is an act of child abuse,' Trump said in a campaign video vowing to 'revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender-affirming care.'
The order applies to any individual under the age of 19 and blocks any use of 'chemical and surgical' use of puberty blockers or any other efforts to remove or alter a person's physical appearance to help them identify as the opposite sex of their birth.
President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office after signing executive orders at the White House
Trump also ordered the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review and publish updated 'best practices' for children suffering from 'gender dysphoria.'
The order directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to defund institution receiving federal grants that support gender surgeries. It also orders Department of Defense health insurance through Tricare to prevent coverage of 'chemical and surgical mutilation of children.'
Trump campaigned on the issue of ending transgender sex-changer surgeries, calling it an issue of common sense.
'It's going on ... pushing transgender ideology on minor children,' Trump said during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. in October. 'How about that one? Your child goes to school and they take your child. It was a he and comes back a she. And they do this. Often, without parental consent.'
The Biden administration made transgender surgeries for minors a moment of moral clarity, condemning state level bills that outlawed transgender surgeries for minors.
President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order to improve government services, in the Oval Office of the White House,
Protesters show support for the trans community during Transgender Day of Visibility
'Transgender people are some of the bravest people in our nation. But nobody should have to be brave just to be themselves,' a document released by the Biden White House read in April 2022.
Biden also decried state efforts in states like Florida and Tennessee to ban surgeries for minors as 'close to sinful' and cruel.'
'What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful. It’s just terrible what they’re doing,” Biden said during a 2023 interview with Kal Penn for The Daily Show.
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