On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender and gender-nonconforming youth from receiving gender-affirming medical care. This order would also penalize any institution that receives federal research or education grants if they provide gender-affirming care to anyone under the age of 19.The order begins by stating that medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a childs sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.It goes on to say that 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.On average, approximately 1% of people report regretting their transition.The ban includes any surgical and medical intervention, including puberty blockers, estrogen, progesterone or testosterone.In the section titled, Ending Junk Science the order denounces the work and research done by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as lacking in scientific integrity and instructs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct a review of existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion.The HHS has been instructed to remove the HHS Notice and Guidance on Gender Affirming Care, Civil Rights and Patient Privacy and issue new guidance.Congress and the HHS are instructed to develop private right of action legislation, which would allow parents or children who have received gender affirming surgical or medical care, to sue medical professionals for damage.In response to the order, GLAAD released a statement saying, The Trump administrations unhinged obsession with attacking transgender people and their health care does not reflect medical fact and does not represent the reality of trans people, youth, and their freedom to be themselves, and make their own health care decisions, without being discriminated against and lied about.Read the full statement here.Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson said this about the ban.Everyone deserves the freedom to make deeply personal health care decisions for themselves and their families no matter your income, zip code, or health coverage. This executive order is a brazen attempt to put politicians in between people and their doctors, preventing them from accessing evidence-based healthcare supported by every major medical association in the country. It is deeply unfair to play politics with peoples lives and strip transgender young people, their families, and their providers of the freedom to make necessary health care decisions. Questions about this care should be answered by doctorsnot politiciansand decisions must rest with families, doctors, and the patient.Advocates for Trans Equality also released a statement.Only 8 days into his second term, President Donald Trump has blood on his hands, said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director for Advocates for Trans Equality. This executive order not only prohibits but intends to set forth a path to potentially criminalize the provision of safe, evidence-based, medically necessary gender-affirming care, endangering the lives of tens of thousands of transgender adolescents under the age of 19.Trumps executive order comes one day after a previous order banning trans people from serving in the military.The post Trump moves to restrict trans youth health care, one day after military ban appeared first on News Is Out.