"Argentina’s president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18"

[LuckyAzureBird]

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentina’s president has signed a decree banning gender-affirming care for people under age 18, a presidential spokesperson said Wednesday.

The announcement comes days after a massive mobilization of the LGBTQ+ collective in repudiation of President Javier Milei’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, during which he slammed “wokeism,” feminism and referred to homosexuals as “pedophiles.”

Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni in a statement to the press announced the repeal of a 2012 gender identity law provision allowing such practices with parental or guardian consent.

“Gender ideology taken to the extreme and applied to children by force or psychological coercion simply constitutes child abuse,” the government of the far-right president said in a subsequent statement. “Children do not have the cognitive maturity to make decisions about irreversible processes.”

https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-gender-affirming-care-44fcbbbbc2aa93b91506ffb08686165a

“Gender ideology taken to the extreme and applied to children by force or psychological coercion simply constitutes child abuse,”

Crikey. By force??

It's good to see a return to sanity.

When applied to children it is fair to say "by force or psychological coercion"

Parents do use force sometimes. You would force a child to have their appendix out to save their life and of course we approve in such extreme cases. Making hard decisions is what parents are for.

Surgery and/or drugs for a child to make a parent or the gym teacher feel affirmed is something else again.

It's like watching dominoes topple

Is he going to roll back on self ID next?

Men can dress how they want but messing around with hormones & puberty blockers when you are young is seriously shit. The damage done is for life

I agree, but also

Women can dress how they want.

Anti-feminism and calling gay people paedophiles is not good. I'm so angry with the left for handing the right the open goal of transgender ideology. So much good in terms of gay and women's rights is going to get trampled in the backlash.