Who will possibly castrate people in India (and around the world) without USAID funds?

That’s the question that many of our best and brightest are asking after India’s first transgender clinics closed. (Unlike the vast majority of Americans, they also think this is a bad thing.)

India’s first three clinics for the transgender community closed last month following a stop-work order from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that funded them, disrupting services for nearly 5,000 people, two sources said on Friday.

So 5,000 people in India won’t have life-altering surgery performed on them or debilitating medications dispensed to them that will prevent them from marrying, having children and will make them more likely to die.

There should be a Nobel Peace Prize in that alone.

If people in India really want to castrate themselves, they can pay for it themselves or go back to using sharp stones.

Or maybe they can change their minds and live healthy normal lives instead.