Washington, D.C., January 29, 2025
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President Trump signed an executive order yesterday banning federal support for “gender transition” procedures for minors.
He wrote on Truth Social:
Today, it was my great honor to sign an Executive Order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of America. Our Nation will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called “gender affirming care,” which has already ruined far too many precious lives. My Order directs Agencies to use every available means to cut off Federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures, that should have never been allowed to take place!
This executive order follows related orders from earlier this month in which the President proclaimed that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female, and ended “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies.
The new order, “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” begins:
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. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.
Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.
Accordingly, it 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 phrase “chemical and surgical mutilation” refers to medical interventions including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries intended to align a person’s physical appearance with their gender identity rather than their biological sex, the order explains.
The new order represents a victory for at least one Orthodox Christian.
Jeff and a young James Younger. Photo: dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com
Jeff Younger has been fighting for years to protect his son James, now 12, from being chemically castrated at the whim of his mother. Anna Georgulas, a pediatrician and Younger’s ex-wife, has been dressing up James and calling him “Luna” since he was a young boy, attempting to “transition” him since he was at least 5.
Texas courts initially granted both parents joint custody in 2019, but Georgulas later won sole custody in 2021, with the caveat that any medical procedures related to her plans for James required Jeff’s consent.
However, the next year, she moved to California, a “trans sanctuary” state, with James and his twin brother Jude, where she was free to pursue her intentions to chemically castrate her son. Younger petitioned the Texas Supreme Court to have his sons returned to Texas, but lost.
In November of last year, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge deprived Younger of all parental rights, giving Georgulas the authority to castrate James.
Yesterday, Younger retweeted a video about Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a doctor who is being sued for medical negligence after convincing a 14-year-old to be physically mutilated. “My insane ex-wife put my son in her clinic. He’s now chemically castrated,” Younger said.
However, a few hours later, he posted a link to the new executive order, saying: “President Donald J. Trump saved my son. I will use all possible avenues to get my son off chemical castration drugs. The fight is not over.”
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