Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Wednesday joined with the attorneys general of 14 other states in issuing a statement committing to protecting access to so-called “gender-affirming care” in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at ending federal funding for sex-change “transition” procedures on children.
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The order, entitled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” was signed by President Trump last week and states it is the policy of the U.S. not to “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another.”
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing 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 order reads. “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
The order also directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday, to prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation and investigations into any acts that may be “misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation.”
The order could have implications for Maine, where Gov. Janet Mills (D) has altered Medicaid policies to allow for taxpayer-funded sex-change procedures. As reported exclusively by the Maine Wire, Department of Health and Human Services records show taxpayers foot the bill for 82 sex-change related procedures in 2021, up from 24 in 2019.
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Additionally, the U.S. attorney general is directed under the order to investigate and take action to “end child-abusive practices by so-called sanctuary States that facilitate stripping custody from parents who support the healthy development of their own children, including by considering the application of the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act and recognized constitutional rights.”
In April 2024, Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law LD 227, a bill that grants legal protections for providers of abortions and transgender surgeries who perform their services on people from states with more restrictive laws than Maine.
The law also institutes legal rights to “gender-affirming health care” and “reproductive health care,” and provides for legal action to be taken against anyone who interferes with someone trying to procure those services.
Another provision in the bill provides legal protections to anyone bringing a minor into Maine for an abortion or to receive transgender treatments, even in cases where the adult is not a parent of the minor, and has not notified the parents.
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On Monday, the Trump administration announced that hospitals in several states, including New York, Colorado, Virgina, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., have taken action to downsize or outright eliminate their “gender-affirming care” programs.
Attorney General Frey, a Democrat, said in the joint statement that he alongside the other 14 attorneys general will “stand firmly in support of healthcare policies that respect the dignity and rights of all people.”
“Health care decisions should be made by patients, families, and doctors, not by a politician trying to use his power to restrict your freedoms,” the attorneys general stated. “Gender-affirming care is essential, life-saving medical treatment that supports individuals in living as their authentic selves.”
The attorneys general claim that Trump’s executive order is “wrong on the science and the law,” and that there is “no connection between ‘female genital mutilation’ and gender-affirming care.
“[No federal law makes gender-affirming care unlawful,” they stated. “President Trump cannot change that by Executive Order.”
The coalition of state attorneys general said they “will continue to enforce state laws that provide access to gender-affirming care,” and that in states where enforcement authority exists — such as in Maine after LD 227 became law — will “challenge any unlawful effort by the Trump Administration to restrict access to it in our jurisdictions.”
Joining Attorney General Frey in issuing the statement were the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Janet Mills spends MY tax dollars to provide sex change operations for sexual deviants .
You can’t make this stuff up .
Democrats in Augusta have lost their minds .
What sick, demonic people run this state.
It’s embarrassing and dangerous
Janet, you are not a good steward of taxpayers money! You are not protecting our precious innocent children! You are morally and ethical compromised.You are not prioritizing
the safety and security of Maines’ people.
Maine is a MESS
Every moronic step these idiots take to the dark side I think this will be the one that breaks the camels back. I cant believe the people are this daft to keep reelecting these criminals. They gotta be monkeying with the elections.
Maine you are an embarrassment… this is child mutilation ffs … when I was kid I wanted to be a pirate , thank goodness I had sane parents that didn’t cut off my leg and peg it… you’re insane.
The real challenge will come at the next election.
Sick fuxx. It wasn’t enough for these demoncrat nihilists to sexually psychologically abuse children in schools with their drag shows and gender-bending hyper-sexualized muck… now they want to defend actual physical sexual mutilation of children behind their parents’ backs. This is the hill they want to die on? So be it.
Stop using Newspeak
It s gender destroying care
An individual has NO GENDER after such procedures
Brutal savagery. Years later these mutilated children will still face a 30% higher suicide rate, sterilization (of course), and most likely a permanent loss of climax sensations. If history is correctly retold, thousands of years from now future societies will still be trying to understand what motivated parents to allow this butchery to be performed on their kids.
May you rot in hell.
Dictator Mills and her minions and media toadies love to use the Orwellian euphemism “gender affirming care” to justify state sponsored child mutilation. Unfortunately, the lemmings that blindly vote for Communist Democrats are easily duped and will continue to elect the worst reprobates to rule Maine !
Children not old enough to smoke a cigarette, or drink a beer, ARE old enough to chemically castrating drugs and have their bodies chopped up. Anyone that says they are protecting the children and have their best interest at heart is a LIAR. Anyone that listens to that $#!+ is an IDIOT. Maine Gov. is as F-ed up as a soup sandwich.
The party of pervs strikes again, to bad he was not as concerned with the 300,000 children the Biden administration was trafficking, I wonder why.
These people are demonic, people like this have always been with us, concentration camps – ovens – religious attacks – gangs – cartels, etc. – all demonic actions – it’s a lifestyle they live, greed, power, hate, money and control, hopefully; with enough of their actions coming to light, people will wake up and those sitting by watching will start to stand up and say no longer will it be tolerated – these actions can be stopped by the good, a good start is at the polls,
Maine is a mess, that’s an understatement!!! Again where is the Maine GOP? They are totally useless, they should be on social media, talk shows, literally everywhere and anywhere. I honestly think they do not care and are just going thru the motions, what a joke. This is why when I retire we are becoming snowbirds so I do not have to be raped by this state!!!
This is what happens when you let a Herd of Lesbo’s run your State !
All the left winged dingbats are coming outta the closet to support each other… a law that supports abortion and surgical rights for kids with mental health issues…all in the same paragraph… how immoral can that be, I’m ashamed to be from the state of Maine
What a dickhead.
Democrats learned not one thing from the vote in November, the people are tired of this WOKE BS, just tired of having this garbage shoved down our throats. Wake up, we are done with it.
How do we rid ourselves of this pathetic AG? Can we start a petition drive or do we need to wait until Mills terms out. Can Maine not see the writing on the wall? Progressive dimwits.
Under whose authority?
NOT MINE!
Maine’s Socialist Democrat scumbags don’t speak for me!
Who elected this POS?
Start the recall process
This “gender care” for minors leads to permanent damage and requires life long expensive “gender care” that will pushed onto the public supported health care budgets.
A doctor that gets a stable of these “gender cases” has guaranteed income for life “treating” the patients they damaged.
Lock her and her deviant team up!
Amazing what Mills is doing to children and tax payers, she will one day have to stand before God and beg forgiveness!
The politicians pushing this need to be thrown in prison after sex change operations on themselves.
I’d really like to know who is authorizing Frey to do anything! What gives him the right to waste taxpayer’s money on his personal political issues?
Especially if the taxpayer’s of Maine don’t agree with his political policies!
Scratch a democrat find a totalitarian pedophile
Man you chucklefucks really are gobbling down that anti-trans koolaid huh?