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Argentina announces ban on gender transitions for minors

Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1738806809532rainbow-flag.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Tim Bieler, Unsplash"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><em>Tim Bieler, Unsplash</em></span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><p>BUENOS AIRES - Argentina said Wednesday it would ban gender transition procedures for minors, part of President Javier Milei&#x27;s war on what he calls &quot;woke ideology.&quot;</p><p>Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said the government would amend a 2012 law to &quot;ban hormone treatment and body adaptation surgery for people aged under 18.&quot;</p><p>He argued that gender transition treatments posed a &quot;serious risk&quot; to the physical and mental health of minors.</p><script data-wid="auto" type="text/javascript" src="https://content.viralize.tv/display/?zid=AAEyze-tm4MR6kEa&amp;cid=ABT92sL5WcKKuv5c&amp;activation=adfill&amp;vip_mode=no"></script><p>&quot;In many cases the effects of these treatments and surgeries are irreversible,&quot; he said, listing Finland, Sweden, Britain and the United States among countries that are restricting access to gender transitions for minors, including treatment such as puberty blockers.</p><p>Adorni added that prisoners would also be banned from requesting transfers &quot;due to gender changes.&quot;</p><p>&quot;This means that if a convict is in a men&#x27;s prison, he will no longer (be allowed to) ask to be transferred to a women&#x27;s section just because he perceives himself as such,&quot; he said, presenting it as an issue of prisoner safety.</p><p>The announcements, which come a week after US President Donald Trump restricted gender transition procedures for people younger than 19, caused outrage in Argentina&#x27;s LGBTQ community.</p><p>&quot;The president cannot modify a law by decree. And if he tries, we will challenge it, including at the Inter-American Court (of Human Rights) if necessary,&quot; the Argentine LGBT+ Federation wrote on X.</p><p>Under the current law, minors can access gender transition treatments as long as they have consent from their legal guardians or a judicial body.</p><p>Milei, a fervent admirer of Trump, used a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month to launch a broadside against what he called the &quot;cancer&quot; of &quot;woke ideology.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/1/28/trump-says-will-sign-order-to-get-transgender-ideology-out-of-military-0845">https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/1/28/trump-says-will-sign-order-to-get-transgender-ideology-out-of-military-0845</a></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/1/20/trump-to-end-diversity-programs-define-2-genders-incoming-official-0031">https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/1/20/trump-to-end-diversity-programs-define-2-genders-incoming-official-0031</a></div><div><br/></div><p>He attacked &quot;radical feminism,&quot; calling it a way of obtaining &quot;privileges,&quot; as well as &quot;gender ideology,&quot; a term used by social conservatives opposed to gender inclusivity.</p><p>His remarks triggered mass demonstrations in Buenos Aires and a dozen other Argentine cities over the weekend.</p><p>Milei has also followed Trump&#x27;s lead on other policy issues.</p><p>On Wednesday, Argentina announced that it would follow the United States out of the World Health Organization, citing similar complaints to those voiced by Trump over the UN body&#x27;s management of the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><div><strong>nb/cb/acb</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>Argentina said Wednesday it would ban gender transition procedures for minors, part of President Javier Milei's war on what he calls "woke ideology."</p>

Argentina said Wednesday it would ban gender transition procedures for minors, part of President Javier Milei's war on what he calls "woke ideology."