In a move welcomed by the US bishops’ point man on family life, President Donald Trump 28 January signed an executive order stating his administration would seek to prohibit certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identifies as transgender.
The order directed that the government “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.”
Bishop Robert E Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, the chair of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, in a 29 January statement praised the president’s directive “prohibiting the promotion and federal funding of procedures that, based on a false understanding of human nature, attempt to change a child’s sex.”
Referencing the Vatican teaching document “Dignitas Infinita,” he said, “Helping young people accept their bodies and their vocation as women and men is the true path of freedom and happiness.”
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