President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order attempting to end federal support for gender transition care for people under the age of 19
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Trump continues attack on trans people, going after trans kids, teens in new order
Those who were insistently “just asking questions” and unceasingly pushing the needle further right — in addition to those who encouraged and then exploited that for their explicitly discriminatory or hateful aims — all bear a measure of responsibility for this, for making trans teens — and, with them, trans adults — fear for their lives tonight.
Trump signs executive order to curtail gender transition for people under 19
“It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,” reads the president’s executive order.
The Guardian points out that studies show that allowing trans teens access to hormone replacement therapy medications lead to lower rates of depression and a lower risk for suicide. Additionally, a 2022 study by the Stanford University School of Medicine found that positive mental health outcomes were higher for transgender people who were able to access hormone replacement therapy medications as teenagers, versus those who accessed it as adults.
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‘In its strangely constructed definitions of “female” and “male,” the order states that a person’s gender is defined by the size of a “reproductive cell” at the moment of conception, a stage when all embryos are phenotypically female.’
Embryos are “neither male nor female” by Trump’s definition, Dr. Francisco Diaz said, since there are no germ cells present at conception.
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‘A reminder that we can resist’: hard-hitting documentary takes aim at anti-trans rhetoric
Heightened Scrutiny, directed by Sam Feder, argues that the fear-based ideology underlying bans on hormone therapy or puberty blockers for minors has been pushed not only by conservative activists but center-left publications such as the New York Times, the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal, whose articles have fixated on surgery, potential regret or risks. As the film notes, such therapies, with the same side effects and risks, are prescribed for other conditions and only raise alarms when applied to trans youths, and the rate of “detransitioning” is less than 1%.
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