President Donald Trump’s executive order opposing gender-transition treatments for minors provided by the healthcare industry is less than a week old – but, some hospitals are already taking hitting the brakes on the so-called “gender affirming” services they offer.

Last Tuesday, Trump issued an executive order “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” describing the harmful and duplicitous nature of transition services provided by the medical industry:

“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.  This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.

“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.”

The order prohibits the federal government from funding, sponsoring, promoting, assisting, or otherwise supporting the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another. It also directs the administration to take all appropriate actions and enforce any applicable laws that could “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”

Trump’s executive order “is already having its intended effect,” the White House announced in a press release Monday, touting how “hospitals around the country are taking action” to eliminate, downsize and review their gender transition programs.

The release highlights steps taken by hospitals in Colorado, Virginia, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC since Trump issued his executive order: