Trump's Ban on Health Care For Trans Youth Threatens Lives

December 18, 2025

Donald Trump’s call for a national ban on transgender health care for young people is not about protecting children. It’s about enforcing cruelty through the power of the state. This proposal would rip medically necessary care away from families and doctors and replace it with fear, punishment, and political control.

Let’s be honest about what this means: forcing transgender and queer kids to live in distress, denying them care their doctors say they need, and using the law to inflict suffering is a form of state-sanctioned torture. It is the deliberate use of policy to cause pain, shame, and psychological harm to children who are already among the most vulnerable in our society.

Trump’s plan tramples parental rights, ignores medical consensus, and treats queer kids as political props rather than human beings. Major medical organizations agree that appropriate gender-affirming care can be lifesaving. Blocking that care does not “protect” children, it endangers them.

No politician has the right to terrorize families, override doctors, and punish kids for who they are. This kind of policy is rooted in fear and hatred, not science or compassion. We should be standing up for young people’s lives and dignity, not cheering on cruelty disguised as governance.