President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting permanent drugs and procedures for minors is dangerous, according to a USC professor
President Donald Trump “erases” LGBT people when he restricts drugs and surgeries meant to make minors look like the opposite sex, according to a University of Southern California professor.
“When policies restrict gender-affirming care, they don’t just create barriers to essential medical services; they send a broader message that erases the existence and legitimacy of transgender and nonbinary people,” pharmacy Professor Tam Phan told Annenberg Media.
The comments were in response to Trump’s “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” executive order.
The order criticizes “maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”
It directs government agencies to stop funding the procedures and prevent institutions that receive federal funds from committing the surgeries or handing out the drugs.
“These harmful policies may disproportionately impact underserved communities by reducing access to knowledgeable providers and essential treatments,” Professor Phan also said.
Phan, according to his faculty bio, “specializes in providing patient-centered care to LGBTQ+ communities and individuals living with HIV. With a passion for advancing health equity.”
A “transgender student” also told Annenberg Media “the order is a sign that things are getting pretty bad.”
“It was expected that Trump would sign an executive order banning it for minors, but the fact that it is 18 and under … is a subtle way of hinting [that] we’re testing the waters with bans for adults,” the student named “Sarah” said.
The president has also said prisons must house women and men separately.
That order is “dangerous” and racist, according to another professor.
“I think Trump, in whatever terrible language is available to him, is trying to control women and control people he perceives to be in the woman category,” University of Illinois Professor Kate Clancy told LGBTQ Nation. “A lot of this is keeping the category of women pure—and also, obviously, about doing immense harm to trans people.”
The president’s promise of “defending women,” is a “very racial, white supremacist thing,” Clancy said, as previously reported by The College Fix.
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