R.It is the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) A report was issued on Thursday 1 MayIn order to distort the reputation of gender care and encourage sexually transformed individuals to experience “exploratory therapy”-or psychotherapy-and it is mentioned that mental health care alone is a way to treat gender dysfunction in children.
“There is a scarcity of searching for psychological therapeutic methods for the gender -dysfunction management in children and adolescents. This is partly due to poor monuments in methods such as” conversion therapy “, the report said.
Although the report argues that this “exploratory therapy” is not the same as the long practice of “conversion therapy” – which is a practice to try to change the sexual inclination or the sexual identity of a person – they don’t see a big difference.
“This report not only rejects the best practices of health care for sexually transformers, but rather he is heading forward by recommending conversion treatment, although it is under a new and rename brand,” Casey Beck, director of law and politics at the Trevure Group, said in another statement. “Despite the report’s allegations, this, in fact, is the same practice to treat conversion, only using a more friendly language. We urge this administration to respect and support people who are – and allow families and doctors to make decisions based on what keeps people healthy, not the ideology of the government.”
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The report arrives after Trump’s executive, entitled “An title”Protecting children from chemical and surgical distortion“Which threatens to cut off the federal financing of hospitals and medical service providers who provide gender affirmation for people between 19 years or less. HHS executive order to issue a report on current literature to treat children with gender pronunciation in 90 days, which decreased on April 28.
The language used in the report expresses a shift in politics and feelings related to gender care-noting only this practice as “medical transition for children” and referring to “gender confirmation surgery” as “sex reset surgery”. This shift is in line with the language resulting from Trump on January 20 Executive order Which announced that there are only two sexes and that the sexual identity is “separate from the biological reality”, which calls for erasing the term.
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A federal judge issued an initial judicial order against the matter – and although the matter was not fully implemented, some federal offices, including Medicare & Medicaid service centersFeatures issued that they will change their practices to comply with Trump’s restrictions on gender care.
The transfer treatment aims to change the sexual tilt of a person or the identity of the sexes. It has been proven Ineffective To people LGBTQ+, it can include a wide range of practices.
“The support of this type of treatment is destructive,” says Shannon Minter, Vice President of the National Center for Lenground Rights. “Being anomalous, being a transgender is not an option. There is no amount of conversation, persuasion, or any kind of consultation that can change that.”
It supports major medical associations in the United States, including the United States, including American Academy of Pediatrics and American Medical Association. Meanwhile, the transfer treatment has been encouraged by many medical associations.
While the Trump administration is consumed in the era of the Federal Federal Control Policy, Supreme Court Cases can also dictate LGBTQ+. In March, the country’s highest court announced that it would be Hearing oral arguments for Chiles V. Saalazarand This challenges the prohibition of the treatment of Colorado converting under the hypothesis that it violates freedom of expression. Decision to United States against skrmetti-It is expected in June-it will be decided whether to prohibit the gender care of the minors is unconstitutional.
“These cases only raise the case classes and create the maximum danger for sexually transformed youth,” says Minter. “The worst scenario for the Supreme Court will support the laws of states that prohibit the basic medical care of these young people, then turn and strike the laws of states that protect LGBTQ youth from the transfer treatment. This will be a devastating double blow.”
The 2022 report estimated that there are about 300,000 sexually transgender youths between the ages of 13 and 17 in the United States, According to the Williams Institute at the University of California Law Faculty.
Trump Executive order Also sponsorship of gender assertion to achieve investigations into this type of health care in the states of the haven, saying that medical professionals were “distorting … admiration children.” Trump also announced April in the name of “the month of prevention of the abuse of national children,” and In his announcement He stated that “he takes measures to reduce all taxpayers financing for any institution involved in sexual distortion of our youth.”
More than 500 LGBTQ+ bills at the state level were presented to the legislative session of 2025, For each ACLU legislative follower. In Kentucky, legislators Vote Prohibition of current transfer treatment, and legitimacy to practice in the state. The attacks on gender care have been more prevalent in recent years, with 26 laws that limit the access to this sponsorship of non -transient persons, According to the Human Rights holders.
“This is not a matter of us as doctors. This is related to our patients and ensuring their continuation in obtaining the evidence -based standard medicine, which treats children with sexual wheels. Ladinsky has been named as a prosecutor in Ladinsky V. Iveyand A lawsuit against Alabama’s 2022 law criminalizes parents to allow their children to reach the gender care. (The case was later dropped and another lawsuit was filed against Alabama Law.)
Experts and advocacy organizations warn of the harmful effects of treating conversion. Lids review Ticket In 2020, the Trevor project found that young people LGBTQ+ who underwent the transfer treatment were more than twice that were likely to report suicide compared to those who did not.
almost Half of the United States Blocking controversial practice, although attempts to ban it at the federal level have never proven fruitful. The Trefor 2023 project report found that the transfer treatment It is still happening Throughout the country. Two years ago, there were at least 1,300 practitioners believed to be still presenting this practice in the United States
