Bondi orders gender-affirming procedures to be investigated
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/bondi-orders-gender-affirming-procedures-to-be-investigated/ar-AA1DytR0?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=18fb2f3f30f44326ab90da0c061c9477&ei=174
Story by Tara Suter (24 April 2025)
Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered gender-affirming care procedures for youth to be investigated in a Tuesday memo.
Bondi in the memo ordered employees of the Justice Department look into and hold accountable "medical providers and pharmaceutical companies that mislead the public about the long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilations" for young people, seemingly a reference to gender-affirming care treatments including hormone replacement treatment.
Bondi cast the memo as a necessary action under an executive order from President Trump from January that aimed to restrict access to gender-affirming care for people younger than 19.
She also blamed "gender ideology" for children unnecessarily getting gender-affirming care or surgery.
"Gender ideology, masked as science, teaches that children should process adolescent stress and confusion as a case of mistaken identity and that the solution is not to root out and eliminate the underlying condition but to acquiesce in it permanently through life-altering chemical and surgical intervention," Bondi said in her memo.
Gender-affirming genital surgeries are rare for minors, and the World Professional Association for Transgender health and the Endocrine Society do not recommend them for people younger than 18.
Gender-affirming care for transgender adults and minors is backed by every major medical organization, though not every transgender person decides to medically transition and some do not have the resources to access care.
Yeah and no one ever asks the young people how they feel. It's easy to make it a scapegoat by saying it's how people "process adolescent stress". In some cases maybe that's true. But in some cases it very isn't true... and these kids don't have enough of a voice to make what they want matter.
One good thing that happened prior to Orange Jesus is that people could express and realise themselves way earlier than we ever could. To save a lot of stress and heartache later down the road. There was/is more understanding now than ever... but the Chump administration is adamant that burying your head in the sand and pretending things will go away is the best course for humanity. It makes me sad. Mostly because the rest of the world is following his lead.