On Wednesday, 15 state attorneys general released a statement vowing to protect transgender surgical procedures for minors, despite President Donald Trump signing an executive order to ban the practice in the United States.
As reported by Fox News, President Trump’s executive order from January, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation,” ordered a crackdown on “chemical and surgical” procedures that aim to mutilate the genitalia of underaged children due to a misbelief that they are “transgender.”
“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 declared. “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
In their joint statement, the attorneys general falsely claimed that “dender-affirming care is essential, lifesaving medical treatment.”
“State attorneys general will continue to enforce state laws that provide access to gender-affirming care, in states where such enforcement authority exists, and we will challenge any unlawful effort by the Trump administration to restrict access to it in our jurisdictions,” the AGs’ statement continued.
The states represented by the attorneys’ general statement are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. All of the attorneys general in these states are Democrats.
One major issue on which President Trump campaigned, and ultimately won, in 2024 was the rise of the promotion of transgenderism, the false and scientifically-debunked belief that there are more than two genders, and that anyone can simply change their gender at any time. On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order forbidding men from competing in women’s sports under the guise of becoming “transgender women.”