The Center condemns President Trump’s executive order intending to restrict federal funding and support for transgender healthcare for transgender and nonbinary minors and 18-year-old adults.
The order directs federal agencies to rescind policies supporting gender-affirming care, withdraw federal funding from the institutions that provide it, and enforce laws limiting access to transgender healthcare.
This order is a hostile attempt to end lifesaving healthcare and further threaten the safety and well-being of trans and nonbinary people. Every single major medical organization, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the American Psychiatric Association, supports the provision of age-appropriate, gender-affirming care. Gender-affirming care is not a new phenomenon, regardless of how the federal administration has continued to push false narratives about its efficacy and safety.
Accessing any form of healthcare should be a private, personal decision made between parents and their children and between patients and their doctors—not the federal government. This executive order is not about safety. Rather than protecting youth, this order prevents parents and youth from making informed medical decisions, and doctors and health care providers from providing the best possible care to their patients.
California has many state protections for access to transgender healthcare. The Center is committed to supporting our trans and nonbinary community members with resources through our Project TRANS program, including case management, support and discussion groups, referrals, and connecting individuals with knowledgeable, gender-affirming health care providers and mental health services.
Trans and nonbinary people are vibrant, beautiful, and perfect just the way they are. We trust that trans and nonbinary people are the experts on who they are and what healthcare best supports their health and well-being. Trans and nonbinary people have always been here and will always be here, and The Center will continue to advocate for their right to access the services they need and to live with dignity and pride.