Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump signed an executive regulation on Tuesday that aims to reduce the support of the federal government for gender transitions for people under the age of 19, his latest step to push back protection for transgender people across the country.
“It is the policy of the United States that they will not finance, sponsor, promote or support the so -called” transition “of one child from one gender to the other, and it becomes all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life -changing procedures “, It says in the order.
The order points out that the federal insurance, including tricare for military families and medicaid, excludes excluded insurance programs for this care and the Ministry of Justice is asked to pursue vigorously legal disputes and laws in order to oppose practice.
Medicaid programs in some states cover gender-specific care. The novel order suggests that the practice could end and is aimed at hospitals and universities that receive federal money and offer care.
The language in the operate of the executive of words such as “mutilation”, “sterilization” and “mutilation” contradiction is what is typical of gender care in the United States. It also characterizes guidelines of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as “Junk Science”.
On his social platform of his truth, Trump named gender care as a “barbaric medical process”.
Large medical groups such as the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics support access to care.
Young people who persistently identify as a gender that differs from their gender assigned at birth are initially evaluated by a team of experts. Some can try a social transition that changes a hairstyle or pronoun. Some can later also receive puberty blockers or hormones. The operation is extremely sporadic for minors.
“It is deeply unfair to play politics with the lives of people and to use transgender young people, their families and their providers of freedom to make the necessary decisions for health care,” said Kelley Robinson, President of the Human Rights Campaigns.
The order encourages the congress to adopt a law that enables those who receive gender -specific care to regret providers, to regret it or their parents.
The Ministry of Justice also instructs the Ministry of Justice to prioritize investigative states that protect access to gender -specific care and “facilitate striping custody of parents”, which oppose the treatments for their children. Some democratically controlled states have passed laws that doctors want to protect, the patients who travel from states in which they are prohibited for minors offer gender -specific care.
Lambda Legal promised quick legal steps.
Michel Lee Garrett, a trans woman whose youthful child only partially identified as a girl and used her/her pronoun, said such guidelines aim to extinguish trans people from public life, but will never be successful. Your child has not decided on a medical transition, but the mother from State College, Pennsylvania, said she would not stop fighting to keep this option for her child and others.
“I will always support the needs of my child, regardless of which guidelines are available or what may come … even if it meant trouble,” said Lee Garrett.
For Howl Hall, an 18-year-old newcomer to Eastern Washington University, testosterone not only changed his body, but also dramatically improved his experiences with depression. With this now endangered treatment, Hall said that he was concerned that the outlet of testosterone would affect his mental health.
“I would be alive, but I wouldn’t live,” said Hall. “I wouldn’t live my life in a productive way. I can guarantee that I would fail all my classes if I even showed up to you. “
The push is the youngest of Trump to reverse the administration of the bidges, protect the transgender people and their care. On Monday, Trump instructed the Pentagon to carry out a review, which will probably lead to the fact that they are excluded from military service. A group of military employees actively sued on Tuesday.
Hours after taking office last week, Trump signed a different order to define sex than just male or female, without transgender, non -binary or intersex people or the idea that gender can be fluid. This has already resulted in the Foreign Ministry that the exhibition of passports with an “X” sensory marker ceases and forces transgender people to apply for travel documents with markings that do not meet their identities.
Trump said that he would tackle these problems during his campaign last year, and his actions could prove to be very split.
In the November elections, voters leaned a little more often against laws that the medical treatment of gender -specific medical treatment, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, for minors under the age of 18 who identify as transgender. About half of the voters, 52%, were rejected, but 47% stated that they were for it.
Trump’s voters supported bans for transgender care: approximately 6 out of 10 Trump voters preferred such laws.
“It is very clear that this order in combination with the other orders that we saw last week of bourgeois life,” said Harper Seldin, a lawyer of the LGBTQ & HIV project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Seldin said the ACLU checked the order “to understand what, if at all, has immediate effect and what continued measures to go through the agency”.
Even if transgender gained visibility and acceptance on some fronts, they have become the main goals for social conservatives. In recent years, at least 26 countries have passed laws that restrict or prohibit gender-specific medical care for transgender-minefes. Most of these states are exposed to complaints, including one of Tenessee banned that is pending in front of the US Supreme Court.
Republicans have also drawn states to prevent transgender women and girls from taking part in women’s or girls sport and dictate which bathroom transfer people, especially in schools.
“These guidelines nobody serve,” said Shelby Chestnut, Managing Director of the Transgender Law Center. “They only create confusion and fear for everyone.”
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Mulvihill reported by Cherry Hill, New Jersey and Schönbaum by Salt Lake City. The authors of the Associated Press, Carla K. Johnson and Hallie Golden in Seattle and Linley Sanders in Washington contributed.
