28 January 2025
Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
Discrimination International Legal Trans Health
President Trump signed an executive order titled 'Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation', intended to ban healthcare for transgender people under 19. The order seeks to deny coverage under the military healthcare programme TRICARE and to withhold federal funding from healthcare organisations providing such care. Multiple legal challenges have been filed.
Impact & Significance
Represented a federal-level escalation of state-level healthcare bans, threatening to cut off gender-affirming care for trans young people across the country.
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- Date
- 28 January 2025
- Era
- 2020-present
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