BUENOS AIRES According to a presidential spokesperson on Wednesday, the president of Argentina has issued an order prohibiting gender-affirming medical treatment for those under the age of 18.
The statement follows a widespread LGBTQ+ collective mobilization against President Javier Milei’s remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, in which he called gays “pedophiles” and attacked feminism and wokeism.
In a press conference, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni declared that a 2012 gender identity law clause permitting such practices with parental or guardian consent had been repealed.
In a later statement, the far-right president’s administration said that radical gender ideology applied to children through physical or psychological pressure merely amounts to child abuse. Youngsters lack the mental development necessary to decide on irreversible procedures.