Trump’s ‘biological truth’ of two sexes and the medical mutilation of children

US President Donald Trump issued executive orders last week on the topic of gender identity.
US president Donald Trump. Photo: Getty Images

It is worth running the quote in full, so there is no ambiguity.

“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilising a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” the executive order states.