NY AG warns hospitals to continue medically mutilating children in defiance of Trump order

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday threatened medical providers with prosecution if they refuse to provide medical mutilation procedures for children.

Medical mutilation is the term used by ethical doctors to refer to cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and genital surgeries because of how they cause permanent sterility and castration, among other serious conditions. Gender activists call them “gender-affirming care.”

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order disqualifying medical institutions from receiving federal funds if they medically mutilate minors. The order also directs various federal agencies to take several measures against medical mutilation providers — including insurance companies — and ends “reliance on junk science.”

“Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,” says the EO.

AG: Refusing to medically mutilate children ‘is discrimination’

Medical institutions have since been refusing requests for medical mutilation procedures, but AG James warned New York’s health providers not to be among them.

“Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws, including those that prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their membership in a protected class, such as sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, military status, disability, or marital status,” James wrote in a letter. 

“Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law,” she added, without explaining how the EO allows medical mutilation on so-called cisgender people.

Trump’s EO ‘already having its intended effect’

NYU Langone is one of the hospitals that began canceling appointments for medical mutilation procedures within days of Trump’s order.

“It’s already having its intended effect — preventing children from being maimed and sterilized by adults perpetuating a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex,” the White House said in a press release. “Hospitals around the country are taking action to downsize or eliminate their so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ programs.”

“President Trump will always protect American children,” the statement continued. “Promises made, promises kept – again.”

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