15 state AGs vow to protect trans procedures for minors despite Trump executive order
Fifteen attorneys general from across the country released a joint statement Wednesday declaring they will protect sex-change procedures for children in defiance of President Donald Trump’s executive order.
Trump signed the executive order in late January titled "Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation." Its stated aim is to restrict "chemical and surgical" sex-change procedures for minors.
"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," the executive order stated. "This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end."
The attorneys general signed a statement of their own claiming, "Gender-affirming care is essential, lifesaving medical treatment."
The states that joined in the statement are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.
