The Trump administration is trying to legislate trans people out of existence |
On Thursday, when Robert F Kennedy Jr announced an effort to block medical treatments for transgender youth, he used the term “sex-rejecting procedures” in place of “gender-affirming care”.
And where transgender advocates and healthcare providers view puberty blockers, hormones and (in rare cases) surgical interventions as suicide prevention measures, the health secretary claimed that these “procedures” will do the opposite: “rob children of their futures.”
Under his proposals, hospitals that provide transgender care to minors would lose federal funding, including Medicaid.
In language as in policy, Kennedy is negating everything, and everyone, trans.
Not content to harm transgender youth by denying medical care, however, the Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on nonmedical products like stretchy garments and silicon prostheses.
In attempting to regulate away commerce in gender-affirming garments and prostheses, it is attempting to regulate away transgender people.
On Wednesday, the FDA sent warning letters to a dozen........