Reuters -Argentina's presidential office said on Wednesday that President Javier Milei had taken the decision to ban gender change treatments and surgeries for minors, as well as impose limits on trans women being housed inside women's prisons. In a press conference, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said the ban would include hormone therapy and followed similar pushbacks in legislation on trans rights in countries such as the UK, Sweden, Finland and the United States, and sought to protect children's mental health.
Gender surgeries are very rarely performed on children worldwide, and trans minors must generally be medically evaluated and diagnosed with gender dysphoria before starting puberty blockers or hormonal therapies.
Milei, a far-right libertarian, will also decree that prisoners be housed according to their gender registered at the time of committing the crime, his office said. Regardless of this, it added, no trans woman will be housed in a women's prison if convicted for sexual crimes, human trafficking or violent crimes against women. Milei's office did not give details on how many trans women were housed in women's prisons or convicted of such crimes, nor did it say how the change would affect intersex people, who are born with non-binary biological characteristics.
The announcement came shortly after a U. Most trans women in the U. Sarah Morland. February 5, at PM. By Sarah Morland Reuters -Argentina's presidential office said on Wednesday that President Javier Milei had taken the decision to ban gender change treatments and surgeries for minors, as well as impose limits on trans women being housed inside women's prisons.
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