On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at stopping federal funding for gender transition care for individuals under 19. This action is part of an ongoing effort to restrict medical care and protections for transgender individuals. The order seeks to cut Medicare and Medicaid funding to any healthcare providers administering such care and insists that medical institutions receiving federal grants cease these services, despite heavy criticism and threats of legal action from advocacy groups. Many professionals defend gender transition care as critical for the mental health and well-being of transgender youth.
"We fought previous attempts by the first Trump administration to restrict health care and we won. We stand ready to fight back against this even more pernicious effort to deny medically necessary health care to our youth."
"The danger and the cruelty of this administration know no bounds," Strangio wrote in a social media post.
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