Common Sense Catching On: Argentina's Javier Milei Bans Transgender Drugs, Surgeries for Minors

Andreas Wailzer : Feb 7, 2025
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"Gender ideology carried to extremes and applied to children by force or psychological coercion constitutes quite simply child abuse. Children do not have the necessary cognitive maturity to make decisions about irreversible processes which in many cases imply the mutilation of healthy organs." -Statement by President Milei

(Argentina) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Argentina's President Javier Milei has banned hormone injections and mutilating gender surgeries for minors. (Screengrab image: Sky News AU)

The Buenos Aires Times reports that Milei signed a decree that amends the country's Gender Identity Law to "prohibit hormone treatments and body adaptation surgery for people under 18 years of age."

Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni said at a press conference on Wednesday, "These interventions to which children are exposed are a serious risk to their physical and mental health, as they imply an interruption in their maturation process."

"As things now stand, minors who so wish may undergo treatment and surgery to change their bodies in accordance with their self-perception," Adorni stated.

Under the current Gender Identity Law that was passed in 2012, minors generally need the consent of their parents to begin so-called "sex change" procedures. However, if one of the parents objects to the measures, the case can be brought to a court, which may overrule the dissenting parent.

"In many cases, the effects of these treatments and surgeries are irreversible," Adorni noted. "Countries pioneering gender change such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland and more recently the United States are backtracking, prohibiting minors from being submitted to these processes for being considered irreversible with devastating long-term consequences."

Milei's spokesman also announced that prison inmates would be banned from transferring to a women's prison due to declaring themselves to be of the opposite sex... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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