The brand new president of the United States, completed this morning with another of his campaign promises by signing an executive order that prohibits the treatment of gender transition and surgeries to children under 19, which considers a “sexual mutilation.”
The order begins by criticizing that many doctors are currently “mutilating and sterilizing an increasing number of children under the radical and false statement that adults can change sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”
“This dangerous trend will be a stain in the history of our nation and must end,” says the Republican on a subject, which together with the immigration, was part of one of the most repeated electoral arguments. In his speech of possession he already advanced his intentions by stating that “there are only two genres: male and female.”
With the signing of the order, it will be the US policy not to finance, sponsor, promote, help or support the call transition From one child from one sex to another, the document indicates, which specifies that “all laws that prohibit or limit these” destructive procedures and that alter life “will be applied rigorously”.
The order charges against a World Professional Association for Transgender Health (, which “disguises medical necessity” the will to change gender. It also orders to stop “immediately” the allocation of federal funds for research or education to medical institutions If they do not put an end to this practice.
Among the actions required by the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, he orders the appropriate measures to end these procedures and orders that the medical coverage of federal employees and the Medicaid be excluded from which people with limited income benefit, among others, among others .
It also requires that within 60 days the agencies to which this executive order must submit a report on its implementation.
