TaHis US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) Published a report on Thursday, May 1With the aim of discrediting gender confirmation and, instead, to encourage transgender and non-binary persons to try research therapy or psychotherapy and say that mental health alone is a way to treat children's gender dysphoria.
“Children and adolescents have a study of psychotherapeutic approaches. This is partly due to approaches such as 'conversion therapy, false characterization', the report says.” Psychotherapy is a non -invasive alternative to endocrine and surgical intervention for the treatment of children's dysinth. ”
Although the report claims that this “research therapy” is not the same as the long practice of “conversion therapy” – which is customary to try to change someone's sexual or gender identity – Adnocates see a little difference.
“In this report, not only does the best practices of the health care of the transgender people, it will take a step forward, suggesting conversion therapy, albeit under the new, renamed name 'Exploratory Therapy',” said Casey Pick, Director of Legbtq+ Law Freight Trevor Project. “Despite the report's allegations, it is actually just as harmful to conversion therapy, simply using a more friendly language. We call for this administration to respect and support the people who they are – and let families and doctors make decisions based on what keeps people healthy, not with government ideology.”
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The report arrives after Trump's executive order entitledProtecting children from chemical and surgical distortion“Threatening federal funding to hospitals and medical services providing gender confirmation to 19-year-olds or younger people. Executive order ordered HHS to report on existing literature for the treatment of gender dysphores within 90 days, which fell on April 28.
The language used in the report expresses only “medical transition of children” in politics and the feelings of gender control, and referring to the “gender confirmation operation” as a “gender mediation operation”. This shift is in line with the language caused by Trump on January 20 Enforcement order Which proclaimed that there is only two gender identity and the gender identity is “disconnected from biological reality”, demanding that it is deleted.
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The Federal Judge made an initial precept against the order – and although the order is not fully enforced, some federal offices, including Medicare & Medicaid Services CentersNotifications issued that they are changing their practices to comply with Trump's restrictions on gender fixing care.
The purpose of conversion therapy is to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity. It has been proven ineffective and harmful LGBTQ+ for people and it may include a variety of practices.
“Confirmation of such therapy is devastating,” says Shannon Minter, Vice President of the Legal National Center of Lesbian Rights. “Being gay, being transgender is not an option. No conversation or persuasion or any counseling can change it.”
Gender -affirming care is supported by US main medical associations including The American Academy of Pediatrics and American Medical AssociationTo. Meanwhile, numerous medical associations have been discredited by transformation therapy.
As the Trump administration steps on at the Federal level in the era of anti-trans-policy, the Supreme Court cases could also dictate LGBTQ+ rights. In March, the people's highest court announced that it would be Hearing of oral arguments Chiles v. SalazarTo do, Which sets the ban on Colorado Conversion Therapy, provided that it violates freedom of expression. Decision USA v. Scrop-Jun.-seeks whether the gender attachment to minors is unconstitutional.
“These cases simply raise the question even higher and pose a truly maximum threat to the young people of transgender,” says Minter. “The worst scenario would be if the Supreme Court supported national laws that prohibit important medical care of these young people, and then turn around and reject LGBTQ+ young people protecting the young conversion therapy. It would be a devastating double blow.”
The 2022 report estimates that the US had about 300,000 young people aged 13-17, According to UCLA Law School Williams InstituteTo.
Trump's Enforcement order In the maintenance of gender confirmation, the States of the sanctuaries also called for a study of this type of healthcare, claiming that the medical professionals were “pursued … impressive children.” Trump also declared April as the “Month of Prevention of National Child Abuse” and In his announcement He announced that he would take measures to interrupt all taxpayers' funding to any institution that deals with our young people's sexual distortion. “
Over 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced for the legislative session of the 2025 year, Aclu's legislative follower. Kentuckys voted to vote for the cancellation of an existing conversion therapy ban by legalizing its practice in the country. Attacks have been much more rampant in recent years, as 26 states have adopted laws that restrict access to such care for transitions and non-binary people, According to the human rights campaignTo.
“It does not concern us as doctors. It concerns our patients and ensures that they continue to receive a science -based evidence -based and care drug that really keeps them healthy and healthy,” says Dr. Morissa Ladinsky, Stanford's Academic Pediatrician who treats children with gender dysphoria. Ladinsky was named the plaintiff Ladinsky v. IveyTo do, A lawsuit against Alabama Act 2022, criminalizing parents for allowing their children to access gender -affirming care. (The case was later taken down and another lawsuit against Alabama Act.)
Experts and promoting organizations warn against the harmful effects of transformation therapy. Pre -reviewed study In 2020, the Trevor project was found to be more than twice as many people in LGBTQ+ people who were conducting conversion therapy than those who did not.
Almost Half of all US states Disable controversial practice, although attempts to prohibit it on a federal level has never proven to be fertile. In the 2023 Trevor project report, it was found that conversion therapy is still underway throughout the country. Two years ago there were at least 1,300 practitioners who still thought of the US practice
