Republicans expect President-elect Donald Trump to act on the first day of his administration to curtail transgender medical treatments for minors.
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Transgender medical procedures for minors, sometimes referred to as gender-affirming care, have gripped the public discourse for several years, becoming a salient matter in the 2024 presidential election.
“My sense is that President Trump is very likely to do something on so-called gender-affirming care for minors in the very beginning of his presidency,” Jay Richards, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation specializing in cultural matters, told the Washington Examiner.
