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President Trump signed an executive order this week that states unequivocally what has been clear to the vast majority of Americans for a while: taxpayer dollars, and the U.S. government as whole, should not support irreversible and dangerous gender transition procedures on children. 

It is hard to overstate the importance of this executive action from President Trump. The Biden Administration was not only funding, but actively encouraging, these procedures on children. Now, we have an administration that is “following the science,” as the left likes to say, and halting any support for what amounts to the mutilation of children. 

Even with this executive order, Congress still has an important role to play. 

I’ve been pushing legislation in Congress to block taxpayer funding for hospitals that transition minors. I’m pleased to see this first step that seeks to block federal programs from covering these procedures for minors and prevent grant funding for institutions that promote this. We still need to pass legislation to defund this permanently, and I’m ready to work with President Trump to get that done in our budget reconciliation package.

My position, and President Trump’s position, is squarely in line with the American public. 70 percent of Americans oppose using puberty blockers on minors according to polling, and that doesn’t even include harmful procedures like double mastectomies on children. 

The left will continue to label efforts like President Trump’s executive order and my legislation in Congress as “bigoted, anti-trans” policy. But, in reality, our position is a commonsense view shared by the American people: we should not treat our children like lab rats in an ideological experiment that has irreversible consequences.