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To ensure we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military. It’s going to be gone,
What Trump said ... Trump said in Florida, according to CBS
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.”
However, Monday’s order condemns gender-affirming care, saying
It's very clear that this order, in combination with the other orders that we've seen over the past week, are meant to not protect anyone in this country, but rather to single-mindedly drive out transgender people of all ages from all walks of civic life,
said Harper Seldin, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBTQ & HIV Project
Parents and families should be free to make medical decisions informed by their doctors and the available science without the interference of politics,
an American Academy of Pediatrics spokesperson saidOur biggest fear is for our daughter. Will she be able to get the care that she needs,
said Melissa Baern, a Massachusetts mother of a transgender 18-year-old daughter who is on hormone therapyThis executive order is a brazen attempt to put politicians in between people and their doctors, preventing them from accessing evidence-based health care supported by every major medical association in the country,
said Robinson, whose group is the largest LGBT+ civil rights group in the country
Everyone deserves the freedom to make deeply personal health care decisions for themselves and their families — no matter your income, ZIP code, or health coverage,
Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson said in a statementThis dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end,
Trump’s executive order saysIt is deeply unfair to play politics with people's lives and strip transgender young people, their families, and their providers of the freedom to make necessary health care decisions."
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement
Today's order lays out a clear plan to shut down access to life-saving medical care for transgender youth nationwide, overriding the role of families and putting politics between patients and their doctors." ... We will not allow this dangerous, sweeping, and unconstitutional order to stand,
Chase Strangio, Co-Director of the ACLU's LGBT & HIV Project, said in a statement ... added Strangio, who defended access to gender-affirming care before the Supreme Court last yearIt is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,
the president said in a statement
We all know by now that so-called 'gender-affirming care' is anything but caring,
Tuberville said