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President Donald Trump signed a broad executive order targeting transition-related medical care for minors Tuesday. The order, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” intends to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care — including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery — for minors, which it defines as those younger than 19. It prohibits federal funding from covering such care for minors, restricts research and education grants to medical schools and hospitals, and directs the secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations to end such care for minors. The order also directs all federal agencies to rescind guidance...

Attorney Chase Strangio will be arguing before the Supreme Court on Wednesday this week to advocate for child sex changes on behalf of the ACLU. Strangio, a trans-identified female, will be arguing that Tennessee must allow children in the state to undergo pharmaceutical and surgical sex changes. The US DOJ brought suit against Tennessee, claiming that "the law leaves the same treatments entirely unrestricted if they are prescribed for any other purpose." In other words, if girls can be prescribed estrogen for medical reasons, then it is discriminatory to deprive boys of that estrogen for gender reasons. As an activist...

A Missouri judge found that a state ban on transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for minors was constitutional Monday, just over a week before the US Supreme Court takes up a very similar case out of Tennessee. Judge Robert Craig Carter highlighted the murky ethics behind the controversial treatments for gender dysphoria in his ruling on challenges from LGBTQ civil rights activists against the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, which was signed into law last year. “The evidence from trial showed that the medical ethics of gender dysphoria treatment for children and adolescents are entirely unsettled,” Carter, who sits on...

A California judge dealt a devastating blow to a Texas father in his years-long fight to stop his ex-wife from allowing their pre-teen son, who identifies as a girl named “Luna,” to receive gender-affirming care.

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law that prohibits the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transition surgery is legal. Russian lower house Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who was one of the authors of the bill, in response to Putin signing the bill into law, shared, “It is extremely important to eliminate possible dangers in the form of gender reassignment that adopted children may face in these countries.” The adoption ban would apply to 15 countries, including Australia, Argentina, Canada, and several European countries. Russia previously banned citizens from the United States from...

Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private who was sentenced Aug. 21 to 35 years in a military prison for releasing highly sensitive U.S. military secrets, is seeking gender reassignment. Here’s how gender reassignment works: Converting male anatomy to female anatomy requires removing the penis, reshaping genital tissue to appear more female and constructing a vagina. An incision is made into the scrotum, and the flap of skin is pulled back. The testes are removed. People who have male-to-female gender-reassignment surgery retain a prostate. Following surgery, estrogen (a female hormone) will stimulate breast development, widen the hips, inhibit the growth of...

A Miami-based surgeon known for proudly advertising her business of maiming bodies in the name of “gender-affirming” care announced on social media that her surgery center is opening more dates for transgender operations to “accommodate” patients in light of President-elect Donald Trump winning the election and heading back into the White House in January. Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher, who specializes in transgender surgeries — from top surgery to labiaplasties and phalloplasties — answered a question from a patient on social media, who asked if she Gallagher is concerned about continuing transgender surgeries in the current political climate. “This is a great...

WARNING! Disturbing images of failed 'top surgery' on young women/girls trying to 'transition' to look like men (BELOW).A YOUTUBE account, Buck Angel (a trans for the past 30 years), wants to get the word out to the young who are considering "gender affirming surgery." Many who experience severe complications and side effects. Buck is adamant that the young should not be given this kind of surgery, that they have a mental disorder (gender dysphoria) instead of a medical need.Buck's video includes a portion wherein a young girl with poor surgical results says 'we need to normalize' atypical scarring etc. Buck...

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) released a disturbing documentary on the gender “transitioning” of children in Canada. The documentary shows an actress, “Sacha,” posing as a 14-year-old patient who says she is trans. After a brief consultation at a private “gender clinic” in Quebec, she received a testosterone prescription. Further, she was advised on life-altering mutilating surgeries during the consultation, which lasted only nine minutes and was during her first appointment. Watch: A 14-year-old girl walked into a private clinic in Quebec, said she was trans, and was given a testosterone prescription in less than 9 minutes! The doctor also...

The new measures ban mutilating surgeries for gender-confused youth and require minors to undergo 40 hours of ‘clinically neutral’ therapy before being prescribed puberty blockers or hormone drugs. LINCOLN, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) — A ban on mutilating transgender surgeries for minors and emergency regulations restricting access to transgender drugs took effect Sunday, adding to a growing list of statewide regulations to protect children from permanent physical and psychological damage. Legislative Bill 574, which was approved by Nebraska lawmakers and signed by Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen in May, took effect Sunday and prohibits transgender surgeries for minors like mastectomies and genital...