Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation
Federal Government Ends Funding for Child Gender Transition Care
What it does
Agencies must stop federal funding, coverage, and support for pediatric gender-transition treatments and ensure grant recipients end these procedures for children.
Real-world impact
- Ends federal funding and sponsorship for pediatric gender-transition treatments.
- Requires grant-funded hospitals and medical schools to stop these procedures.
- Removes coverage for children from military and federal employee health plans.
Topics
Summary
This executive order bars federal support for medical treatments that change a child's sex, including puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and related surgeries. It directs federal departments to stop funding, sponsoring, promoting, assisting, or supporting these treatments for anyone under 19 and to enforce laws that limit such procedures.
Agencies that provide research or education grants must ensure institutions that receive federal money end these treatments for children. The order also instructs the department that oversees public health to review medical literature and asks military and federal employee health plans to exclude coverage.
Questions, answered
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