Gender Affirming Care has been Cancelled in the USA

But is it still risky to celebrate the triumph of commonsense over mutilating madness in Australia?

The Executive Order of the US President, dated 28 January 2025, is titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.”

Here are some quotes from this Executive Order:

Across the country today, medical professionals are 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. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.

Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.

Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.

The phrase “chemical and surgical mutilation” means the use of puberty blockers, including GnRH agonists and other interventions, to delay the onset or progression of normally timed puberty in an individual who does not identify as his or her sex; the use of sex hormones, such as androgen blockers, estrogen, progesterone, or testosterone, to align an individual’s physical appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex; and surgical procedures that attempt to transform an individual’s physical appearance to align with an identity that differs from his or her sex or that attempt to alter or remove an individual’s sexual organs to minimize or destroy their natural biological functions. This phrase sometimes is referred to as “gender affirming care.”

The blatant harm done to children by chemical and surgical mutilation cloaks itself in medical necessity, spurred by guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which lacks scientific integrity.

As a parent who has a child that has been seduced into this destructive and mutilating state-endorsed ideology, I am almost beside myself with relief. Finally, finally some political leader in the Western world is firmly rejecting the promotion of sexually mutilating queer ideology to our vulnerable young people. But can I celebrate this triumph as an Australian?

I was amazed to discover that when I tried to search the internet (using google) for stories on this EO, the only stories available to me were critical of this terribly regressive and inhumane step into bigotry and victimisation of a vulnerable minority. The algorithm won’t let me see the stories I want to see, the stories that celebrate the final triumph of truth over lies in the cause of protecting vulnerable children and young people from irreversible harm.

I am directly experiencing how ideologically controlled the internet now is, and how integral corporate information providers and government endorsed ideology now is, in the name or protecting people like me from “mis-information” and “hate-speech”. Though I have a PhD in the sociology of knowledge and have read queer gender theory much more closely than Australia’s Rainbow flag waving politicians, I am treated like a baby who must be protected from ideas, information, and (supposedly wrong) evaluations that are simply not good for me to know. What patronizing, presumptive, and straight-out ideological tyranny this Progressive Rainbow fashion imposes on us all. This also – not just the ideology itself and its horrifying effects on the vulnerable – makes me very angry indeed.

Gender Ideology objectively really is physically damaging to confused children and young adults who are seduced by a post-human ideal that denies the physical realities of their bodies. What madness has possessed us that we actively promote the irreversible sexual mutilation of our children and young adults? At last, someone has done something to stop this, somewhere. But it is still a long way from Australia. The mutilating Rainbow ideology retains its grip Down Under. When will we get free of it, I wonder.