President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to restrict "chemical and surgical" sex-change procedures for minors. 

"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," the order, entitled "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation," states. "This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end."

"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," the order continues. "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."

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President-elect Trump announced a new executive order "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation." (Donald Trump/Truth Social)

"Accordingly, 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," it says.

Posting on Truth Social, Trump said, "Today, it was my great honor to sign an Executive Order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of America. Our Nation will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called ‘gender affirming care,’ which has already ruined far too many precious lives. My Order directs Agencies to use every available means to cut off Federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures, that should have never been allowed to take place!"

Mark Trammell, the executive director and general counsel of the Center for American Liberty, which represents some detransitioners in lawsuits, praised Trump's action. 

"President Trump is to be commended for his incredible leadership protecting vulnerable children from the gender industrial complex," Trammell said. "This executive order rightly distances federal agencies from the discredited World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) while also withholding federal funding from institutions that chemically and surgically mutilate kids."

"It is pathetic that Joe Biden lacked the moral and intellectual clarity to issue such an executive order, instead elevating politics over the health of vulnerable children," he added. 

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Activists for and against trans rights protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court before the start of the United States v. Skrmetti case on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson said in response to the order, "Everyone deserves the freedom to make deeply personal health care decisions for themselves and their families - no matter your income, zip code, or health coverage. This executive order is a brazen attempt to put politicians in between people and their doctors, preventing them from accessing evidence-based health care supported by every major medical association in the country. 

"It is deeply unfair to play politics with people's lives and strip transgender young people, their families, and their providers of the freedom to make necessary health care decisions. Questions about this care should be answered by doctors - not politicians — and decisions must rest with families, doctors, and the patient."

Texas whistleblower indicted by DOJ

Dr. Eithan Haim had been charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Biden after exposing transgender procedures for minors at Texas Children's Hospital.  (Screenshot/X/Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

On Friday, the Trump Department of Justice dropped charges against Dr. Eithan Haim who blew the whistle on transgender medicine being performed on minors in Texas.

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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month challenging a Tennessee law banning transgender medical treatments for children in December. A ruling in the high-profile case is expected by July 2025.

Over two dozen states have enacted similar bans restricting minors from accessing transgender medical treatment.

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