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Tonight’s Ban on Adult Gender Transition (Yes, 18-Year-Olds are Adults)

By executive order, the federal government will not support transition

Tucker Lieberman

8 min readJan 29, 2025

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Today, the US received a new executive order.

The White House, January 28, 2025

Folks:

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.

“Maiming” is unspecific and implies a violent crime. “Sterilizing” is generally untrue, at least for children. “A growing number” is fact-free; if the president had numbers, he’d provide them. “Impressionable” is a gratuitous adjective before “children.” “Radical and false” is just a dismissive insult, “irreversible” means little insofar as every choice is irreversible because time doesn’t flow backward, and “dangerous” is likewise unsupported.

Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.

“Countless children,” again, suggests only that he has not bothered to count them, and he may have neglected to do so because so few trans…

Tonight’s Ban on Adult Gender Transition (Yes, 18-Year-Olds are Adults)

By executive order, the federal government will not support transition

Written by Tucker Lieberman

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