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By Susan Berry, Ph.D., CatholicVote, February 9, 2025
Several major children’s hospitals in the United States have stopped giving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and trans-related surgeries to minors in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order that threatens to withhold federal funding from institutions that continue the harmful treatments and procedures.
On Jan. 28, Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” in which he affirmed: “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.”
In response to the order, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) released a statement claiming that “policies that restrict or ban access to necessary medical care for transgender youth are harmful to patients and their families.” …
