...President plans to extort schools into ending gender-affirming care

[Jessica_Rose]

Karoline Leavitt says the president plans to extort schools into ending gender-affirming care

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/karoline-leavitt-says-the-president-plans-to-extort-schools-into-ending-gender-affirming-care/

Daniel Villarreal (1 Aug 2025)

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has claimed that the presidential administration's recent extortion of Brown University in Rhode Island will help end "gender extremism" and the institution's "barbaric procedures" of gender-affirming care for children, including the provision of puberty blockers (which Leavitt dishonestly refers to as "chemical castration").

The deal, announced Wednesday, requires Brown University to pay $50 million over 10 years to state workforce development organizations (which the federal government will reimburse the university for), and to follow the president's executive orders commanding institutions to ban transgender women from sports teams and facilities matching their gender identity and to discontinue provision of any gender-affirming medical care for minors. In exchange, the federal government will restore over $500 million in federal contracts and research grants that the administration illegally withheld without the necessary congressional approval.

During yesterday's White House press briefing, a reporter asked if the administration will prioritize ending gender-affirming care provided by other universities in the future.

Leavitt replied, "Ending the chemical castration of children in our country is a priority of this administration. We've talked to many of these universities about it, but also the President has also taken very strong action to cut off the funding for any medical institution in this country that provides those barbaric procedures."