President Donald Trump on Jan. 28 signed an executive order aiming to restrict gender-affirming care for youth and some adults at the federal level, marking the latest White House-led attack on transgender rights under the new administration.
The new order, which is offensively entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” calls to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for individuals under the age of 19 and directs the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to “take all appropriate actions to end” gender-affirming care, “including regulatory and sub-regulatory actions.”
