By james art 
The executive order of President Donald Trump, which aims to block federal funding and to limit the care confirming in gender, for people under 19, is alarmed transgender residents and defenders, although healthcare staff seek to propose a measure of comfort.
“There is a lot of anxiety and a lot of fear,” says a savings trader, trance and unprecedented resident and volunteer at the Rainbow Bridge Chitalishte in Barre, a non -profit purpose that serves LGBTQ+ needs in Central Vermont.
While a number of countries have already restricted access to confirming gender care, in Vermont, such care remains accessible and for the most part are covered by Medicaid.
Trump’s order, signed on Tuesday, includes directives for the elimination of federal guidance on sexual care, civil rights and confidentiality of patients and prevention of Medicaid and Tricare – a form of military health insurance – from financing such procedures. The order also strives for medical institutions that receive all kinds of federal funding and provide such care.
Mike Fisher, Vermont’s chief healthcare protector, admitted that he had a “great fear and uncertainty” provoked by the order, but stressed that such health services remain protected in Vermont. (In 2023, the state adopted the “Shield Law” to protect suppliers and patients from potential studies related to gender and abortion care services.)
“We want to assure Vermonters that there have been no changes to the protection of access to care that are protected by the law of Vermont,” he said. He and others indicated the probability of the order to face legal challenges.
“Services are still available”
The planned parenting of Northern Nova England, which provides gender care, in the meantime, adopted a waiting and viewing approach.
“It is difficult to say what will happen because there are so many steps between the executive order and the things that come into force,” says Jessica Barquist, Vermont lobbyist for planned parenting of Northern New England. The organization places a large volume of inquiries from concerned people, she said.
“I think part of the strategy here is to make people panic,” she said. “So, part of what we hope to do is assure patients that services are still available. And there are no effects at the moment. “
Daniel Barlow, CEO of the Health and Wellness Clinic of People in Barre, which heals patients at 18 and older, called the order “dangerous escalation in continuing political attacks against transsexual and uncalled people, and we are afraid to deny the rescue of the rescue of Vermonters’ life of all ages. “
But the clinic, he said, will continue to provide care for all patients who qualify, regardless of sexual identity.
A spokesman from the Ministry of Health in Vermont declined to comment.
“We’re all just fossilized”
The merchant, the volunteer of Rainbow Bridge, who facilitated a meeting on Tuesday night for parents of transgender children, said residents are deeply worried about access to medicines and healthcare as a result of orders that are aimed and discriminated against a very vulnerable group – transsexual young people.
“In principle, if you have a Trans Kid, an actual minor, are now wondering: how will I be able to take care of my child who needs and wants my child? So, many of these people generally make plans for emergencies, “Trader said.
This includes mothers who are trying to get their own doctors to write hormonal drug recipes on behalf of their children or try to gain access to healthcare in Canada, Trader said.
“We’re all just fossilized,” Andrea said, whose 22-year-old daughter is a transgender and who asked for her family to be detained for concerns about her family safety. While she is always worried about her daughter’s safety, she is already more, given the current climate.
“I’m constantly afraid,” she said. “The reality is that it is more likely to be directed, forcibly, sexually (and face) harassment.”
When Andrea heard the most executing order that spins the defenses for transsexual people, she said she was crying and overwhelmed by “feeling of horror” and helplessness. Trans children’s parents go beyond social media and change emails and telephone numbers because they are afraid that their children and their families can be directed, she added.
About 3% of students from Vermont Secondary School and 5% of high schools surveyed are identified as transgender, according to a report of behavior across the country in 2023, compiled by the State Health Department. As students who identify themselves as LGBTQ+, they are disproportionately more likely to encounter harassment, experience or witness of violence and self -harm, the report states.
There has been a significant increase in hatred and violence against the transsexual community throughout the country. Trump’s campaign promises to protect the children from the “left -wing gender madness” further nourished the fire last year, CNN reported.
“Paul Care is healthcare”
The advocacy groups return to the most recent executive order of the Trump Administration, which comes on the heels of more ordinary orders that seek to ban transgender people from serving in the military (which is already facing a court challenge) and demanding the government of the government The United States to recognize only two genders – a man and a woman.
“Antitrans executive orders are largely rooted in unfounded facts and extremist ideologies,” says Dana Kaplan, Executive Director of Freed Vermont, a state non -profit purpose that supports LGBTQ+ in email.
Kaplan noted that enforcement orders do not have the power to overturn the Constitution of the United States, Federal Statutes, or establish a legal precedent.
James Lyell, CEO of Vermont’s ACL, called the order “unprecedented abuse of federal power to be challenged.”
Vermont Clark’s general organization said its cabinet inspects all the executive orders of the Trump Administration, including those who have the potential to influence healthcare for trans and unprecedented young people, and examine options for challenging any orders that it considers illegal to be illegal orders S
“I want to reassure our trance and non-gratuitous friends, family members, and especially children, that I will use the full power of my office to defend my rights,” she said in an email statement.
The executive order states that the United States “will” not fund, sponsor, promote, support or support the so-called “transition” of a child of one gender to another “and will apply laws that prohibit or limit such” destructive and life- change of procedures S “
In addition, it is stated that “medical specialists cripple and sterilize an increasingly number of impressive children under the radical and false claim that adults can change the sex of the child through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”
The organizations that provide a gender -affirming medical treatment have withdrawn in this language.
The standards of medical help for sexual dysphoria have existed for decades and include the consent of the patient or their careful care if the patient is a minor, and in -depth screening and evaluation of mental health specialists, said Heather Eli, CEO of The Rainbow Bridge Chitalishte Center In the bar.
“All leading medical associations support this medical help, as research shows that it is effective and essential for the health and well -being of transgender people,” she added. “The regrets of transition-related care is about 1% or less. For comparison, regret after knee replacement operations can reach 30%. “
The 38-year-old trader who has received gender care in the planned parenting and at the Barre clinic criticizes the order and the language used.
The word “mutilation”, she said, there is a connotation that contradicts medical science, which largely shows that care for the affirmation of gender saves life.
“Playing acels are health care,” a merchant said. “So you get it as a trance person is no different than booking an appointment with your cardiologist and having an echocardiogram. You take care of your heart. And when a trance one gets a gender confirming care, he takes care of himself. “