The recent executive order from Trump targets youth under 19, classifying 18-year-olds with children while emphasizing a binary gender framework. It mandates a review of practices concerning gender dysphoria and directs funding agencies to cease support for gender-affirming care. This move faced backlash from LGBTQ advocates, who argue it undermines medical care for transgender youth. Prominent voices from organizations like the ACLU and Human Rights Campaign decried the order as politically motivated and detrimental to the well-being of young transgender individuals, calling for resistance against its implications.
"Today's order lays out a clear plan to shut down access to life-saving medical care for transgender youth nationwide, overriding the role of families and putting politics between patients and their doctors."
"We will not allow this dangerous, sweeping, and unconstitutional order to stand," added Strangio, who defended access to gender-affirming care before the Supreme Court last year.
"It is deeply unfair to play politics with people's lives and strip transgender young people, their families, and their providers of the freedom to make necessary health care decisions."
GLAAD called the rhetoric in Trump's executive orders 'appallingly inaccurate,' emphasizing the detrimental impact on the transgender community.
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