On January 28, Donald Trump signed an executive entitled “Protecting children from chemical and surgical distortion.” It announced that the United States will not “will not” fund, sponsor, promote, help, help or support the so -called “transition” of a child from one sex to another “, and” will implement all laws that prohibit or limit these laws and procedures for changing life. “It may limit the matter, which determines that any person is less than nineteen years old, also covering this care under federal health insurance programs and other federal insurance programs. He directs hospitals that receive scholarships or educational grants from the government to stop any related treatment programs By moving to minors.
In the week that followed, the main hospital systems that receive money through the federal government began to cancel care in the cities of the Blue State, including Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver and Washington, DC in New York City, at least two hospitals – NYU Langone Health and Mount Sinai – Operations Surdging surgical, and some parents were said that they will not prescribe medications For new patients under the age of nineteen. (NYU Langone or Mount Sinai has not issued a public statement about its policies, or made its doctors available for suspension.) Not all hospitals that have canceled the appointments have rescued, and it appears that the fear of losing federal funds has an intended effect.
After publishing the executive order, I spoke to the mother of a transient child who goes to Nyu Langone for sexual assurance. The possibility of her interruption has been sent to a state of panic. From the age of four, her daughter, who was appointed as a male at birth, was hitting herself and telling her parents that she wished that she had never been born. “It was very bad for a long time, I thought my child was being abused by someone,” the mother said. Her daughter was six years old when she was hiding under a table and crying during a family event, and she explains for the first time what was wrong: “In my heart and in my mind I am a girl.”
Her mother remembers: “I felt the actual relief – and confusion – because I have not tested anything like this before.” She herself did not know any personally converted people. The decision to allow her daughter to move socially – to an external appearance as a girl, and the adoption of female pronouns – under the supervision of doctors. Self -residence stopped and thinking about suicide: “This child has moved from hiding under the field and crying all the time to be very happy.”
As her daughter approaches adolescence, she followed a unified protocol to take adulthood, which allows children to stop their development until they decide either to start eating estrogen or testosterone or undergo adulthood. (The era in which doctors prescribe hormonal therapy according to the patient and the doctor, but the general rule is sixteen.) “We did not have a light discussion.” The mother said, who confirmed that the identity of her daughter’s gender was her property, and that the girl was present in talks With doctors about its care. “There are others like her – they live their private lives, and they pass their days as ordinary children.”
Her daughter is now fourteen years old, and many of her teachers and peers do not know that she is not moving. (She and many of the other fathers to whom she spoke were asked not to be identified to avoid their children be overcome) to be disastrous. She told me: “I never thought that my country would want to disappear my child, and I want to mainly deny her existence as a person.” She is concerned that the increasing hostile view of converting people will create a “long and terrible” path “for her daughter. “This will steal her from her dignity – from her life.”
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump took a central control position for his political platform. Ads were mocking people across people during the global series and other major sporting events. According to AdIMPACT advertising, the total expenditures of the Republican Party on broadcasting ads indicating crossing people-which have found that studies that were found less than one percent of the American population over the age of thirteen-fading are two hundred million dollars. (Trump’s campaign spent about thirty -seven million. During the October Campaign in Bronx, Trump stressed that “there are some places that your child leaves, and returns to a girl, without the approval of the parents.” On the agenda 47, the official policy platform promised, Trump is a ban Care for sex for minors worldwide.
In addition to the opposite of the promise of the campaign, Trump’s executive order is the coronation of years of Republican legislative efforts at the state level. In 2021, Arkansas became the first to pass a law prohibiting the transitional treatment of minors; Twenty five states, since then its own restrictions have passed. The new states faced the directives of the medical authorities – including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology – determines the effectiveness of the recommended treatment protocols, which was created by the National Congress. The World Professional Association for Sexual Health, which is an organization of doctors, mental health professionals and surgeons who grew up from an attempt to unify care in 1979. (Trump’s executive order claims this Wpath “It lacks scientific integrity”, her protocols are called “unwanted science”, and the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services directed to produce a review, within ninety days, from “the current literature on best practices to promote the health of children who assert gender sex. In her opinion in the United States against Skrmetti, a lawsuit filed by Aclu, Lambda LEGAL, a few families against Tennessee.
A defensive reaction to this ban, New York became one of the fourteen states to pass the so -called safe armed laws for transit youth. The New York Law, signed by Governor Cathy Hochol, in 2023, prohibits the local authorities to adhere to the arrest of medical service providers and with investigations outside the state in families seeking to care for the revitalization of both sexes, among other provisions. The Human Rights Law in New York State, which protects the population of New York from discrimination, also devoted “sexual identity or expression” as a standard in 2019. One I wrote about him in this magazine in 2023I moved from the cases where the ban was passed to those in which the treatment seemed more stable. In early February, in the aftermath of the executive order, letia James, the New York Prosecutor, published a letter warning that violates services on the basis of sex.
Therefore, the denial of care in New York City came with a feeling of treason. “They have not changed the law,” said a civil rights lawyer named David Brown. The parents of the transgender children expressed their anger that New York Hospitals had apparently surrendered to the Republican political agenda before being legally asked to do so. One of the mothers told me that Mount Sinai canceled a consultation of surgery for her son in December, weeks before Trump took office. The family obtained a consultation after months of waiting and a battery of the assessments imposed by the hospital by mental health specialists-only to be informed, the mother explained that Mount Sinai no longer sees minors of surgical consultations because of the “political climate.” One of the second parents told me that Mount Sinai Consulting her supreme son in December, citing the “political climate”. (Mount Sinai refused to comment.)
Many parents who spoke to them were facing a problem with eating and sleeping, and more than one stormed tears while we talked. One of the father told me that his child had expressed that she had been a girl since she started picking clothes for herself, at the age of two and a half, and that as she was old in clothes, games, friends and activities she has been consistent. He said: “In every way, it has a social meaning about the meaning of being a girl at the present time in America, this is what she has always done.” He was a military warrior from the Middle West, amazed to find himself distorted through the executive order, which casts the care that his daughter sought as a “chemical distortion”. He told me: “I am not exactly of virtue or anything, but I am a person who lived a good and virtuous American life.” “Suddenly, I felt that I was pushed out of all of this, and he was criminalized and drawn as morally deviant.”
