Trump signs executive order to ‘protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation’
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order targeting transgender medical care and procedures for minors.
So no more circumcisions now?
It looks like the actual language was precise enough to exclude circumcision... but that would have been hilarious.
What's amazing about this is how targeted it is. They aren't actually concerned about protecting children from genital surgery (which isn't something anyone is doing on trans kids, anyway). The point is to write a narrative that makes them saviors and reasonable people monsters.
Yet not precise enough to be accurate to what medical professionals actually do or claim
Circumcision definitely alters an individual’s sexual organs to minimize their natural biological functions.
And ear piercings?
under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex
The only thing more infuriating than Republicans being utterly incapable of understanding that NOBODY claims you can change your sex, is Republicans closing their eyes and covering their ears when everyone tells them that we're not claiming it.
They're blatantly putting words in our mouths at this point. Their ignorance is willful. It's either time we start fighting fire with fire, or someone needs to step up and start dishing out "Italian goodbyes".
(Edit):
irreversible medical interventions
It's hard enough for ADULTS to get GRS or T/E... On what fucking basis are they claiming children get these treatments?
I wonder how you can spin this against oil companies pollution water and causing mutations in humans.
40% of all breast reduction surgeries are performed on men. Sorry, dudes! You're going to have to live with those tits your body made after getting cancer (or just a slightly abnormal puberty).
When bullets are fired from a gun, that’s a chemical reaction, right? Does this mean no more school kids will get shot as well?
So this means they're committing to not slicing and dicing intersex babies genitals for them, forcing them into a false biological dichotomy?
Because it sounds like he just wrote an Executive Order that reads like it's trying to ban that.
So no surgeries at all then?
RIP kids
I notice clerical mutilation is not on the list.