Canadian doctors denied patients gender-affirming care, citing Trump's executive order - LGBTQ Nation

"McGill University in Quebec has denied gender-affirming care to at least two trans American students since March, when the school adopted a preemptive policy denying hormone replacement therapy over fears the Trump administration would retaliate, two sources say."

""They said they wouldn't be prescribing HRT to American citizens who were under 19 because of the executive order that Donald Trump issued," Gimbert said. The student was referring to Trump's executive order, Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation, issued a year ago in January, which directs federal agencies to carry out the American president's crusade against transgender identity across the U.S. government."

""If you told me a month ago that a U.S. executive order would be influencing how doctors do their job across the border, I would have been like, no, that can't be the case," Gimbert said."

""These are American laws. American laws don't apply in Canada," they said."

McGill University in Quebec denied gender-affirming care to at least two trans American students since March. The school adopted a preemptive policy that denies hormone replacement therapy, citing fears that the Trump administration would retaliate. Trans advocates said the policy was applied to American students under 19 based on a U.S. executive order. The executive order directs federal agencies to carry out actions against transgender identity across the U.S. government. Advocates criticized the decision as unnecessary because American laws do not apply in Canada. McGill has about 1,000 American students among nearly 40,000 total students, many from abroad.

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