New York Prosecutor Leitia James warned hospitals on Monday against following her President Donald Trump Guidance to prohibit sex change procedures for minors, on the pretext that doing so will violate the state law.
Trump's executive order (EO), which was signed last week, was entitled “Protecting children from chemical and surgical distortion.” Its goal is to restrict “chemical and surgical materials” Sex change procedures For minors.
“All over the country today, medical professionals distort and hold an increasing number of children who can impression under radical prosecution and the mistake that adults can change the gender of the child through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” says Eo. “This dangerous trend will be a disgrace to our nation's history, and it must end.”
The announcement continues that the United States “will not fund, sponsor, promote, help, or support the so -called” transmission “of a child from one sex to another.
New York Prosecutor Littia James Hospitals' warning not to follow Trump about “gender care” for minors. (Reuters)
In the letter, James argued that the refusal to provide gender confirmation would violate the anti -discrimination laws in the empire's state.
“Regardless of the availability of federal financing, we write to remind you of more obligations to comply with the laws of New York State,” she said.
In an e -mail obtained by the Associated Press, a spokesman for the New York Hospital Association said his organization was consulting with hospitals about EO.
“We are working cooperatively through each aspect of EO to determine its legal and clinical effects.” “This work continues.”
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Attorney General Letia James speaks during a press conference in 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
In a recent interview with Fox News, senior medical analysts doctor. Mark Siegel He explained that the main treatments to be installed Under Eo Puberts and sex reinstitting surgery include minors.
Siegel said: “Puberty blockers, and the main one is Lubron, which we use for prostate cancer, as Siegel said.” I don't think we can say that puberty blockers with hormones have long not possessed the term side effects, they do. “
The doctor added: “Surgery, we are talking about breastica, we are talking about upper and lower surgeries. I think this is not the opposite and it should never be done on children.” “Supporters will say,” Whenever I wait, the more the child is suffering from him. “I think there are conflicting research on this.
Siegel also stressed the importance of treating mental health of young people and warned of the danger of the decision to undergo sex change procedures, which may not be irreversible.
“You have a child, and they suffer from sexual confusion. Have they got enough advice to mental health?” He said. “Did they get a chance to develop? Are they under pressure politically by someone in society, or their parents? Then, most importantly, does intervention lead to something that is not reflected?”
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US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists from the Iron Office after he signed an executive order to appoint the deputy director of the Federal Aviation Department at the White House in the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Fox News Digital Contact the James and White House office for additional comment.
Kendall Titz of Associated Press and Fox News Digitter contributed to this report.
