WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at curtailing gender transitions for people under age 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,” Trump said in a statement.

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    2 months ago

    “Procedures” to them includes literally all gender affirming care. Therapy? Procedure. Puberty Blockers? Procedure. HRT? Procedure. Social Transition? Procedure. This will only ban federal support but won’t actually ban gender affirming care entirely, mainly because that would take an act of congress. This is still bad and hurts all gender specialist doctors that get federal grants, which I have no idea how many of them there are.

    The next step is congress banning it for everyone. They did 19 because that’s them saying that even when you are old enough to vote and join the military you can’t make a decision about your own body. Just a matter of time.

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    2 months ago

    Soo, is this another one of those things that weren’t happening to begin with?

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      No, this is definitely a real thing. Medicare (run by the states) has some states that support gender affirming care for minors. This removes funding for that, and the state would have to cover it on their own. Likewise with military insurance.

      Will this impact a lot of people? No. Will it still impact people? Absolutely and fuck this man for this shit.

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        Presumably you mean Medicaid? I guess I assumed there was already a Hyde amendment type thing there as well.