Let’s be clear: this is not about protecting children. It’s about erasing them.

This executive order isn’t a policy—it’s a manifesto of cruelty, laced with misinformation and driven by fear, not fact. It cloaks itself in the language of compassion, invoking “the children” as victims in need of rescue. But the only thing it rescues them from is their own right to exist.

What Trump is calling “chemical and surgical mutilation” is known to doctors, families, and thousands of brave young people as gender-affirming care. It’s supported by leading medical associations across the world. It’s lifesaving. And it’s provided under the careful, regulated oversight of physicians, therapists, and parents—those who actually know the child, love the child, and walk through the pain and confusion with them.

But now, with the stroke of a pen, that care is demonized. Doctors are smeared as butchers. Parents are cast as villains. And transgender youth—already among the most vulnerable populations in our society—are treated as threats to national morality.

Let’s call this what it is: a state-sponsored assault on trans kids.

This order is a blueprint for government overreach masquerading as moral clarity. It bans healthcare by executive fiat. It suppresses science by decree. It targets evidence-based medical guidance as “junk,” not because it’s untrue, but because it’s inconvenient. It hands federal bureaucrats the scalpel to cut away children’s agency, their parents’ trust, and doctors’ ability to care.

This is about power—ideological power—exercised on the backs of kids who just want to feel safe in their bodies. Kids who already fight every day to be understood, seen, and loved.

And what does this government offer them? Shame. Rejection. A lifetime of untreated pain.

It is grotesque to watch a former president, a man with no medical training and no empathy for those outside his narrow worldview, weaponize parental fear and cultural panic to strip away the very freedoms he claims to champion.

This is not protection. It is persecution.

If you care about children—truly care—then you fight for their right to live, not to be legislated out of existence. You stand beside them, not above them. You listen to their voices, not erase them with cruel euphemisms and bureaucratic violence.

Let’s stop pretending this is about safeguarding kids. It’s about silencing them.

And history will not look kindly on those who stood on this side of the line.