Trump issued a fabulous new executive order on Jan. 28 entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.” What, you might ask, is meant by “chemical and surgical mutilation” of “children”? According to the EO, it involves “the use of puberty blockers, ... the use of [cross-gender] sex hormones, ... and [cross-gender] surgical procedures” on “individuals under 19 years of age.”

Justification and Purpose of This Executive Order
In effect, so-called “gender-affirming care” is a form of child abuse that results in “maiming and sterilizing … impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”
“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, “this dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
The General New Policy
The new policy of the United States government is that (1) it will no longer “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another”; and (2) “it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
In short, so far as the executive branch of government is concerned, the federal government will cease funding or promoting in any way a child transitioning to the other sex and will enforce only those laws that prohibit or limit it.
Practical Impact on Hospitals, Whistleblowers, Insurers, and Federal Guidance
The most important element of this EO is that “institutions receiving Federal research or education grants,” “including m...