President Trump has issued an executive order prohibiting the use of federal funds for pediatric transgender procedures. The order, titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” and posted to the White House website Tuesday afternoon, says:
Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.
Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills…
