 "Argentina: Milei bans gender-change treatments for minors, restricts housing transwomen in women's prisons")
Argentina’s President Javier Milei has banned gender change treatments and surgeries for minors, as well as set restrictions on placing trans women in women’s prison wards, his office said on Wednesday.
Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni stated during a press briefing that the ban would include hormone therapy and follows similar pushbacks in legislation on trans rights in countries such as the UK, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. The measure is aimed at protecting children’s mental health.
“This decision will allow for a much more reasonable system that guarantees the security of all women inmates and ends the insanity promoted by the nefarious gender ideology,” Adorni said.
The announcement comes days after thousands of Argentines protested in favour of LGBT+ rights following Milei’s speech in Davos, Switzerland.
In the speech, he questioned “feminism, diversity, inclusion, abortion, environmentalism, and gender ideology” and described progressive policies as a “cancer that must be extirpated.”
“The president cannot modify a law by decree. And if he tries, we will go to the judiciary and the Inter-American Court if necessary,” the Argentina LGBT+ Federation said on X.
“Gender ideology, when taken to extremes and applied to children by force or psychological coercion, clearly constitutes child abuse,” the office stated.
Gender surgeries are very rarely performed on children worldwide, and trans minors must generally be medically evaluated and diagnosed with gender dysphoria before starting puberty blockers or hormonal therapies. Milei will also decree that prisoners be housed according to their gender at the time of committing the crime, his office said.
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View AllMoreover, Milei has announced Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), citing dissatisfaction with its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Milei follows Trump
According to the President’s decision, no trans woman will be housed in a women’s prison if convicted of sexual crimes, human trafficking, or violent crimes against women.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
In a bizarre move, at his inauguration, Trump declared that the U.S. government would recognise only two genders, male and female. He later signed orders banning transgender troops from the military, seeking to rid the military of what he called “transgender ideology.” He also signed an order restricting gender transition procedures for those under 19.
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