Trump vows to punish doctors, hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to transgender

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No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender,” Trump said in the video before falsely claiming that being transgender is a concept that the “radical left” manufactured “just a few years ago.”
“Under my leadership, this madness will end,” he said.
Trump, who officially announced his 2024 presidential bid in November, added that, if he is reelected, federal agencies will be instructed to immediately cease programs that promote the concept of gender transition “at any age” and promised to prohibit federal tax dollars from being used to help pay for gender-affirming interventions.
The former president said he also plans to pass a law barring minors from receiving gender-affirming health care “in all 50 states” and intends to direct the Justice Department to investigate the pharmaceutical industry and individual hospitals to determine whether they “deliberately covered up horrific long-term side effects of sex transitions in order to get rich.”
Doctors who treat transgender youth will be booted from Medicaid and Medicare under his leadership, Trump said Tuesday, and a private right of action will be established for patients who later regret having received gender-affirming health care as minors to sue their physicians.
Gender-affirming health care — for both youths and adults — is considered safe, medically necessary and often life-saving by most professional medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics

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Trump on Tuesday said his proposed policy changes would similarly extend to education, and school officials that suggest a child “could be trapped in the wrong body” will be faced with “severe consequences” if he is reelected next year, including potential civil rights violations for sex discrimination and the elimination of federal funding for schools.

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