Former President Donald Trump said Monday from Palm Beach, Fla., that he will sign an executive order to end all federal programs that promote gender transition if re-elected.
The former president was at an event for Club 45 USA, Trump's self-proclaimed largest club of supporters in the country, when he announced that he will seek to suspend all policies pushed by President Joe Biden on gender-affirming care.
"I will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called 'gender-affirming care.' Gender affirming? A process that results in the physical mutilation of minor children," he said, adding that he will have federal agencies "to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age."
Trump said he would make sure any hospital or health care provider that engages "in chemical or physical mutilation" of minors no longer met health and safety standards for Medicaid and Medicare and that they were "terminated from the program immediately."
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The former president reported that he will even have the Department of Justice investigate both major pharmaceutical and hospital networks to determine whether they have deliberately covered up the side effects associated with long-term sexual transitions.
"My Department of Education will inform states and school districts that if any teacher or school official suggests to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body, they will be faced with severe consequences including potential civil rights violations for sex discrimination and the elimination of federal funding," Trump stated.
Trump culminated his message by saying that gender dysphoria had never been heard of until the "radical left" started talking about it just a few years ago.
