President Donald Trump has completed another of his campaign promises on Tuesday by signing an executive order that prohibits gender transition treatment and surgeries to children under 19, which considers a “sexual mutilation.”
The order begins by criticizing that many doctors are currently “they are mutilating and sterilizing to a growing number of children under the radical and false statement that adults can change sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. “
“This dangerous trend will be a stain in the history of our nation and must end,” says the Republican on a subject, which together with the immigration, was part of one of the most repeated electoral arguments. In his possession speech he already advanced his intentions by stating that “There are only two genres: male and female.”
With the signing of the order, it will be the US policy not to finance, sponsor, promote, help or support the so -called ‘transition’ of one child from one sex to another, indicates the document, which specifies that “all laws will be rigorously applied” that prohibit or limit These “destructive and life” procedures.
The order charges against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPath, which “disguises medical necessity” the will to change gender.
It also orders that The allocation of federal funds is stopped “immediately” For research or education to medical institutions if they do not put an end to this practice.
Among the actions required by the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, he orders the appropriate measures to end these procedures and orders that the medical coverage of federal employees and the Medicaid be excluded from which people with limited income benefit, among others, among others .
It also requires that in a 60 -day period of the agencies to which this executive order applies They must submit a report on their implementation.
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