Milei seeks to prohibit access from minors to hormonal treatments or surgeries to adapt their bodies to their gender identity

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The Government of Argentina will seek to modify the gender identity law to prohibit children from accessing hormonal treatments or surgeries to adapt their bodies according to their gender identity, President Javier Milei spokesman, Manuel Adorni, reported Wednesday.

The official said that this seeks to “protect the physical and mental integrity” of children and adolescents because, in the opinion of the Executive, these measures harm those who are under 18 years.

“These interventions that are exposed to children is a serious risk to their health, both physical and mental, since it implies an interruption in their maturation process,” said Adorni in a message to the media, without presenting evidence.

The current law, approved in 2012 by the Legislative, allows the over 18 years to access hormonal treatments or surgeries to adapt their bodies with their self -perceived gender identity and, in the case of minors, it establishes that they must have the consent of its tutors and with the approval of a judge.

The Milei government said it will exercise its powers to modify laws by decree to prevent under any circumstances from a minor to access these interventions, Adorni said on Wednesday. At the same time, the Executive endorsed his decision in a statement.

The Constitution of Argentina empowers the President to issue legislative provisions through decrees under certain circumstances: the decrees of necessity and urgency, when a law cannot follow its usual course in the Legislative, and the delegated decrees, which delegate to the president legislative functions of public administration or emergency for a certain period, but only when a law of Congress authorizes it.

In this context, the Argentine Federation LGBT+ said that the country’s legislation does not allow Milei to modify the gender identity law by decree. “And if you try to resort to justice and the Inter -American Court if necessary,” said the organization in X.

Genus statement treatments are considered medically necessary care to help a person transition from the genre assigned to the birth of which he identifies.

In the United States, in the case of minors, the Pediatrics Academy of this country advises doctors to provide appropriate treatment, without prejudice and in a safe clinical space. The treatment is individual and can also include family, school colleagues and the community where a minor develops.

Some minors choose medications delay puberty that, according to studies cited by CNN, help reduce the stress generated by the physiological changes of this stage. In the US, there are few children who opt for surgery.

CNN contacted the Ministry of Health of Argentina and the National Institute of Statistics and Census to request information on the subject and is waiting for a response.

The modification announced by the spokesman adds to other statements and government decisions against what Milei disqualifies as “gender ideology”, as refers to the principles and policies that indicate the disadvantages facing women and people of the LGBTQ population and seeks to combat those inequalities.

In January, during his participation in the World Economic Forum in Davos, in Switzerland, Milei insisted that for him there are only women and men, a position that Adorni and other officials have defended. These positions deny non -binary identities, transformal expressions and medical consensus about people who do not feel identified with the gender assigned to birth.

On Saturday, protesters marched in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina to protest this type of sayings of President Milei.