President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” … promises to protect children from “destructive and life-altering procedures.” On the contrary, the executive order is full of inaccuracies and is cruel to children, adolescents and young adults (and their families) who suffer from gender dysphoria. To cite a few examples from the executive order:
The order begins by characterizing gender-affirming care as “a series of irreversible medical interventions.” However, the great majority of gender-affirming care interventions for young people — social transition (changes in name, clothing, etc.) and the prescribing of puberty-blocking agents — are reversible.
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I have cared for youth with gender dysphoria and I have referred many of these young people to subspecialist physicians who specialize in gender-affirming care. The process of prescribing medical interventions is an appropriately slow, deliberative and multidisciplinary process, involving the parents as well as the teenager.
