Detransitioners Feel ‘Relief’ After Trump EO Provides Legal Recourse for Child Sex-Change Victims

February 2025

  Young adults deceived by the transgender medicine industry into irreversibly altering their bodies to change sexes have the opportunity for legal remedy due to a presidential executive order.

   Claire Abernathy started identifying as a transgender male at the age of 12. She started taking testosterone shortly after she turned 14, two months after her first appointment with a gender therapist. She got a double mastectomy six months later.

   It only took a year for her to start to regret it, and she started detransitioning at 16. Now, the 20-year-old is committed to saving other young people from irreversibly harming their bodies.

   She said she wishes there had been something in place to protect her like President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting the government from supporting or funding child gender transitions.

   “It makes me emotional, to be honest,” she told The Daily Signal, “knowing that a group that has been so deeply harmed and ignored for so long is finally having our voices heard.”

   The executive order says the attorney general will, “in consultation with the Congress, work to draft, propose, and promote legislation to enact a private right of action for children and the parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medic ...

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