Washington – President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at reducing federal support for sex transitions for people under 19, his last move to cancel the protection of transgender people across the country.
“The United States policy is not to finance, sponsor, encourage, promote or support the so -called ‘transition’ of a child of one gender to another and will strictly impose all laws that prohibit or restrict or limit these destructive and life -changing procedures,” is said in the order.
The order directed federally managing insurance programs, including TRICARE for military families and Medicaid, to exclude the coverage for similar care and calls by the Ministry of Justice to take vigorous lawsuits and legislation to oppose practice.
Medicaid programs in some states cover the care of gender -promoting. The new order suggests that the practice may end and focus on hospitals and universities that receive federal money and provide care.
The language in the executive order-use of words such as “mutilation”, “sterilization” and “mutilation”-the protrusion of what is characteristic of the gender-affirming gender care in the United States. He also sets guidance from the World Professional Association for Transsexual Health as a “junk science”.
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On his social platform of truth, Trump called the affirmation of the gender “barbaric medical procedures”.
Main medical groups such as the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics maintain access to care.
Young people who are stubbornly identified as a gender, who is different from their gender appointed at birth, are first evaluated by a team of professionals. Some may try a social transition involving a change of hairstyle or pronouns.
Some later may receive pubertal blockers or hormones. Surgery is extremely rare for minors.
“It is not deeply unfair to play policy with the lives of people and to undress young people, their families and their freedom suppliers to make the necessary healthcare decisions,” said Kelly Robinson Campaign President.
The order encourages Congress to adopt a law that allows those who receive confirming sex and to regret it or their parents to judge the suppliers.
Some countries controlled by Democrats have adopted laws that seek to protect doctors who provide gender care for patients traveling from states where it is banned from minors. Trump’s order also directs the Ministry of Justice to prioritize investigative countries that protect access to gender care and “facilitate the undressing of the arrest by the parents”, which opposes the treatment of their children.
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Michelle Lee Gareth, a trance woman whose teenage child only partially identifies as a girl and uses that their pronoun, said that such policies aim to erase trans people from public life, but will never succeed. Her child did not choose to pursue a medical transition, but the mother from the State College, Pennsylvania, said she would not stop fighting to maintain this opportunity for her child and others.
“I will always support my child’s needs, no matter what policies it can be or what can come … even if it means a problem to me,” said Lee Gareth.
About Hole Hall, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of East Washington, not only changed his body, but drastically improved her experience with depression. With this treatment, which is now threatened, Hall said he was worried that getting out of testosterone would harm his mental health.
“I would live, but I would not live,” Hall said. “I would not live my life at all in a productive way. I can guarantee that I would fail all my classes if I even showed up to them. “
The press is the most native of Trump to turn the Biden administration policies protecting transgender people and their care. On Monday, Trump directed the Pentagon to conduct an examination, which would probably cause them to be banned by military service. A group of servicemen actively filed a case against this Tuesday.
Hours after taking office last week, Trump signed another order that seeks to define sex as only a man or a woman without recognizing transgender, unbridled or intersex people or the idea that gender can be liquid. This has already led to the fact that the State Department has stopped issuing passports with the marker X, forcing transgender people from applying for markers that do not correspond to their identity.
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The American public, divided into an affirmative skirt medical treatment
During his campaign last year, Trump said he would deal with these problems. His actions can be widely separated.
In November elections, voters are a little more likely to oppose than the support laws that prohibit medical treatment confirming gender, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, for minors at the age of 18 who identify themselves as transgender, according to transsexual AP VOTECAST. About half of the voters, 52%, were opposite, but 47% said they were for the benefit.
Trump’s voters were much more sick to support transgender bans: about 6 in 10 Trump voters supported such laws.
“It is very clear that this order, combined with the other orders we have seen in the last week, are intended not to defend anyone in this country, but rather to expel unambiguous transgender people of all ages from all the walks of civil life” , said Harper Seldin, a lawyer for the LGBTQ & HIV project of the American Union of US Civil Freedoms.
Seldin said ACLU was examining the order “to understand what, if nothing else, has an immediate effect on what it has to go through the prolonged action of the agency.”
Even when transgender people have acquired visibility and acceptance on some fronts, they have become the main goals for social conservatives. In recent years, at least 26 countries have adopted laws restricting or banning medical assistance confirming gender for transgender minors. Most of these countries are brought to lawsuits, including one over the ban on Tennessee, which is pending before the US Supreme Court.
Republican countries have also moved to protect transgender women and girls from competing in the sport of women or girls and dictate which baths can use transgender baths, especially in schools.
“These policies do not serve anyone,” says Shelby Chestnut, CEO of the Center for Legal Laws. “They only create confusion and fear for all people.”
The trial disputes the executive order for transsexual troops
Meanwhile, six members of the Active Transsexual Duty Service and two former service members seeking review on Tuesday have filed the first case challenging Trump’s enforcement order, which calls for a review of transgender policy and probably laid the basis for their ban on their ban in the armed forces.
This order, signed on Monday, claims that the sexual identity of the members of the Transginal Service “contradicts the soldier’s commitment to an honorary, truthful and disciplined lifestyle” and is harmful to military readiness. It requires the Minister of Defense Pete Heget to issue a revised policy.
Army Captain Gordon Erero, one of the six active plaintiffs, said in a statement accompanying the trial: “There is nothing to be a transgender who makes me better or worse than any other soldier I serve together. We are all here because we are engaged with our country and are passionate, willing and able to serve effectively. “
The six plaintiffs include an honorary sailor of the year, the recipient of the bronze star and several who have received well -deserved service medals.
“I spent more than half of my life in the army, including the battle in Afghanistan,” SGT said. 1st grade Kate Cole. “The removal of skilled transgender soldiers like me means eviction of experienced staff.”
The lawsuit was filed by the same legal team, which spent years during the Trump first administration, fighting Republicans’ ban on transgender troops, which the Supreme Court allowed to enter into force, even when the legitimate fight against it continued in the courts. Democratic President Joe Biden defends the ban when he took office.
The trial disputes the executive order on the basis of equal protection and claims that it reveals an animation against a specific group.
Mulvihill reports from Cherry Hill, New Jersey and Schoenbaum by Salt Lake City. Associated Press Writers Carla K. Johnson and Hali Golden in Seattle and Linley Sanders in Washington have contributed to reporting.
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