The White House on Monday celebrated reports that some hospitals have stopped providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth in response to an executive order that threatens their federal support.

“Hospitals around the country are taking action to downsize or eliminate their so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ programs,” the White House said in a news release on Monday.

It claimed doctors practicing transgender health care had “maimed and sterilized” children and perpetuated “a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex.”

President Trump last week signed a sweeping executive order meant to broadly restrict access to transition-related care for minors, which the order says includes children and teenagers up to 19 years old. Among other provisions, the order directs federal agency heads to block government funding........

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