By Steve Neavling
The FBI is asking the public to report hospitals, clinics, and health care providers that offer gender-affirming care to transgender minors, as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict such treatments, The Hill reports.
“As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care,” the FBI posted Monday on X, encouraging tips through its hotline and website.
The move comes amid Pride Month and as Washington, D.C. hosts World Pride festivities. It also follows a pair of executive orders President Trump signed in January, one recognizing only male and female sexes and another broadly restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors.
The Department of Health and Human Services has since removed its web page on gender-affirming care, calling it contrary to “biological reality” and part of an ideology it claims harms children and women.
While gender-affirming care includes a range of medical, mental health, and nonmedical services, the restrictions adopted in 27 states, starting with Arkansas in 2021, primarily target surgical procedures. Legal challenges in 17 of those states have put the bans on hold.
Trump has frequently condemned what he calls “transgender insanity” and “lunacy,” and HHS recently reaffirmed its opposition to gender-affirming care for minors.
Research shows that gender-affirming surgeries are rare among minors and handled case by case. Less than 2 percent of Americans ages 13 and older identify as transgender or nonbinary, according to KFF.
