Trump puts schools ‘on notice’: Pushing transgenderism is ‘child abuse’
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‘Every public school in America is now on notice: That if they tell a child that they are trapped in the wrong body, they are committing child abuse,’ Trump said.
(LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump issued a stark warning on Monday to public schools to stop encouraging “gender transitions” for confused students or face consequences.
Speaking from the White House Rose Garden during a back-to-school event with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, the president lamented the “extreme ideologies” such as “transgender insanity” that have taken root in schools in recent years.
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“This school year, American parents and students have so much to be excited about because the Trump administration is steering education back to its rightful focus: serving students so that they are prepared for successful futures,” McMahon agreed, going on to reiterate that “after the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly ‘transition’ students without parents’ knowledge, President Trump is defending parental rights like never before.”
The Biden administration took a hardline stance that transgender procedures were a “best practice” and even that it was “cruel” and “sinful” to prevent children from being subjected to puberty blockers or transgender surgeries.
Upon returning to office, one of Trump’s earliest executive actions was an order that ended all federal financial support for “transition” procedures on minors, rescinded or amended all of the Biden health bureaucracy’s past endorsements of underage “transitioning,” and called for a review of the medical literature on the subject, enforcing all existing restrictions on underage “transitioning” and taking regulatory action to “end” the practice to the greatest extent possible under current law. The administration has also used federal purse strings to curb transgender ideology in classroom instruction, sex-specific athletic programs, and access to intimate facilities such as restrooms and lockers.
A large body of evidence sides firmly with the Trump approach, finding that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.