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Why Trump’s order protecting children from medical mutilation is a game changer

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With the stroke of a pen, the U.S. is finally joining other countries in taking steps to protect children from those trusted authorities, including teachers and doctors, who use lies, fear, fraud, and taxpayer dollars to trick children into believing that they have to take drugs and mutilate themselves to be happy. 


On Tuesday evening President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to protect those under the age of 19 from the harms of gender transition procedures, as well as imposing consequences on those who mislead children and teens about the harms of these experiments.

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The order begins by describing the pain felt by many who have undergone gender transitions as children and later realized the mistake they made.

“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,” the document states, explaining,

“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 may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.”

Due to this, the order continued, “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.”

The order labels the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures aimed at changing a child’s appearance to match their gender identity as “chemical or surgical mutilation.”

The order also mandates that agencies rescind all guidance that relies on the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines. The organization, which has only been in existence since approximately 2010, claims that gender transitions are medically necessary and children are likely to commit suicide without intervention. Governments and medical associations around the West rushed to adopt standards of care based on those established by WPATH.

Investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger has since revealed that WPATH’s study on which it based its standards of care was fraught with issues and that the organization hid side effects and other harms caused by “gender affirming care.” Numerous other studies have since shown that there is no benefit to gender transitions and, in fact, it causes great and permanent harm.

The order tells the Secretary of Health and Human Services to publish guidance on best practices for the health of children with gender dysphoria or confusion.

The order also mandates that any medical school, hospital, or institution receiving federal funding stop performing or supporting gender transitions in minors.

HHS is ordered to take action to end child chemical and surgical mutilation of children.

The order tells the Secretary of HHS to withdraw the guidance issued by the previous administration promoting gender affirming care and, in consultation with the Attorney General, to issue new guidance protecting whistleblowers. Dr. Eithan Haim was prosecuted by the Department of Justice under the Biden administration after he exposed illegal gender transition procedures on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital. Those charges were dismissed on Friday.

The order also mandates that health insurance provided by the Department of Defense known as TRICARE, as well as other insurance provided to federal workers, is never used to fund any surgical or chemical mutilation of children.

The Attorney General is ordered to enforce laws against female genital mutilation; end the deception of consumers and fraud by any person or group that misleads about the long-term side effects of gender transitions; and work with Congress to create legislation that creates a private right of action for children and the parents of children whose “healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals practicing chemical and surgical mutilation.”

The order also targets the policies of so-called transgender sanctuary states, which “facilitate stripping custody from parents who support the healthy development of their own children.” The order instructs the Attorney General to prioritize investigations into these cases and to use appropriate actions including the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act, a federal law passed in 1980 that resolves jurisdictional conflicts in child custody cases, to end these “child-abusive practices.”

The Freedom Center has reported that some states enact sanctuary laws that strip parental rights from parents who refuse to allow their child to transition or who even allow one parent, or someone who is not the child’s parent, to take a child across state lines for gender transition procedures. In those cases, the state will not cooperate with law enforcement from other states. Critics have rightly noted that this is essentially legalized kidnapping.

Trump posted on Truth Social that “it was my great honor” to sign the order, saying the country “will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called ‘gender affirming care,’ which has already ruined far too many precious lives.”

He added that his administration will cut off federal funding to institutions “which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures, that should have never been allowed to take place!”

Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who filed the first ever lawsuit against a hospital system for performing gender transition procedures on her as a minor, has since been one of the world’s most outspoken voices against child gender transitions. She wrote several posts on X discussing the order.

“This is the beginning of the end of childhood gender transition in America. Still lots of work to do, an EO only goes so far. Let’s rejoice in this moment though. Promises made, promises kept”, Cole stated.

She pointed out the language in the executive order that discussed the regret of detransitioners and the harms they have dealt with. “We, the detransitioners, the gender apostates have been the most effective at defeating gender ideology” she posted.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., recently said that he plans to reintroduce legislation that would allow victims of gender surgeries to sue doctors, gender clinics, and hospitals that harmed them with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.

This is indeed a day to celebrate and to praise God. For years, truly insane gender ideology has run rampant and captured the levers of power, leaving scores of confused children, ruptured families, broken bodies, and shattered futures in its wake.

It seems the tide is finally turning, and more Americans are waking up to the evils of gender ideology.

While an executive order can only accomplish so much and this order will be challenged in court, it is a vital step towards making the mutilation of children unthinkable.

For starters, Trump’s order will go a long way in thwarting the activism and funding streams that have allowed this radical movement to infiltrate so many institutions, including schools and children’s hospitals, and shine a bright light on the realities of what has been a well-hidden medical scandal.

Cole’s words are true: This day may never have happened had it not been for the powerful stories of those who have been hurt by gender transitions. Sadly, there are many who can no longer have a child, breastfeed, or have normal sexual relationships and who experience numerous physical health problems as a result of being put through what is nothing short of experimentation.

It isn’t just physical harms that these victims have endured as a result of gender transition procedures. They are also dealing with mental and spiritual heartache.

Adults whom these children trusted, school staff, therapists, doctors, and more all lied to these children that they were born in the wrong body. These “experts” and authorities insisted to children and their parents that without gender transition they would commit suicide, while simultaneously hiding the harms of the procedures and telling them that a gender transition would make everything right.

Yet it didn’t make everything right. It ruined children’s bodies and destroyed their trust.

If not for the stories of detransitioners, maybe these horrors would have never been put under the microscope, leading many nations to halt gender transitions in minors. Now, finally, the U.S. is joining in the effort to protect children, though progressive states such as California, Washington State, and Minnesota will no doubt continue or even double down on pushing transgenderism on children.

So while this battle is far from over, we must recognize that this order is a critical first step in defeating radical gender ideology — and one that will, ultimately, save untold numbers of children from permanent harm.



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