Trump's Justice Department Targets Doctors, Clinics Who Provide Sex Change Procedures To Minors

The Justice Department connected Wednesday said it has subpoenaed much than 20 doctors and clinics that are progressive successful providing minors pinch activity alteration procedures.

The agency is investigating healthcare fraud, mendacious statements and more, it said. 

"Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children successful nan work of a warped ideology will beryllium held accountable by this Department of Justice," Attorney General Pamela Bondi said successful a statement. 

FBI LAUNCHES PROBES INTO 3 CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS FOR ALLEGED GENITAL MUTILATION OF MINORS

President Donald Trump speaks Tuesday during a Cabinet gathering pinch Secretary of Housing, Eric Scott Turner, left, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, center, astatine nan White House. On Wednesday, Bondi said nan Justice Department announced that it has sent much than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics progressive successful performing transgender aesculapian procedures connected children. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The DOJ did not disclose which doctors aliases clinics person been served pinch subpoenas.

In April, Bondi issued a memo stating that nan DOJ would beryllium investigating and prosecuting those who connection activity alteration treatments for minors. 

Bondi said she was instructing each U.S. attorneys to analyse each suspected cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) nether nan "banner of alleged 'gender-affirming care'" and to "prosecute each FGM offenses to nan fullest grade possible."

Bondi besides ordered nan DOJ's Civil Division's Consumer Protection Branch to analyse manufacturers and distributors engaged successful misbranding by making mendacious claims astir nan on- aliases off-label usage of puberty blockers, activity hormones aliases immoderate different supplier utilized to facilitate a child’s activity change.

DOCTOR WHO BLEW WHISTLE ON TRANSGENDER MEDICINE MOCKS LIBERAL JUSTICES' 'INSANE' DISSENT IN LANDMARK CASE 

In nan first days of his 2nd administration, President Donald Trump issued an executive bid barring nan national authorities from funding, sponsoring, promoting, assisting aliases supporting activity changes for children. 

The bid besides pledged to rigorously enforce each laws that prohibit aliases limit nan procedures connected minors.

"Across nan state today, aesculapian professionals are maiming and sterilizing a increasing number of impressionable children nether nan extremist and mendacious declare that adults tin alteration a child’s activity done a bid of irreversible aesculapian interventions," nan bid states. "This vulnerable inclination will beryllium a stain connected our Nation’s history, and it must end."

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In June, nan U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a Tennessee rule banning circumstantial transgender aesculapian treatments for adolescents successful nan authorities is not discriminatory.