The Government announced that it will prohibit hormonization treatments in children under 18 years

The presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni announced Wednesday that The Government will prohibit hormonization treatments In children under 18 contemplated in the Gender Identity Law approved in 2012. Days ago, President Javier Milei had criticized these treatments after the massive LGBT pride march last Saturday.

Adorni justified this decision by maintaining that these “Interventions exposed to children is a serious risk to their health, Both physical and mental, since it implies an interruption in its maturation process. “To do this, he anticipated that the Government will modify the Gender Identity Law.

In an official statement, The government pointed again against what they call “gender ideology”which “taken to the extreme and applied in children by force or psychological coercion constitutes smoothly child abuse.”

In the press conference a measure was also announced that had already been anticipated by the President months ago. It will be decreed that the accommodation of the prison detainees will be determined according to the sex recorded at the time of the criminal act“To prevent anyone from using the gender change excuse to request a transfer from the jail in which it is,” as explained in the statement.

These ads occurred days later From repudiation to President Javier Milei’s speech in Davos where referred to the LGBT collective in hard terms. In the forum he accused the “gender ideology”, in his most extreme versions, of committing abuses. “They are pedophiles,” he described.

This speech generated a Strong rejection of the LGBT communitywhich organized a Crowd march in Plaza de Mayo in repudiation of their sayings. Days later, the president said he was misrepresented and went out to criticize the Province of Buenos Aires for having “240 hormonization centers” where “the genitals amputate to a creature … Meanwhile, they fill his head that is something other than what his biology says.”

What does the Gender Identity Law say that the government intends to modify

The gender identity law that aims to modify the government was voted with broad consensus by the National Congress in 2012. The norm recognizes the right of any person to recognize their gender identity self -perceived and guarantees the change of personal data or health treatments in the case of being required.

In the case of minors requesting health treatments for changes in sex or physical adaptation according to self -perceived identitythe law establishes that it must be for its legal representatives (for example their father or mother) with his express consent and that it is necessary to have a judicial resolution that supports it.

This article wants to modify the governmenteliminating any possibility of accessing this right, claiming that they are forced by “gender extremism”, obviating the requirement of the conformity of the child and justice.

The answer that the province of Buenos Aires had given

Last Tuesday Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplakcrossed the president Javier Milei for having said that in the province of Buenos Aires there are “240 hormonization centers”. He argued that it is a “lie” and that the president “I don’t know and lack the truth.”

In their social networks, the Buenos Aires Health Minister He clarified that “they are not hormonization centers And gender reallocation surgeries are not made in minors “. Actually, they are offices “with inclusive perspective” prepared to serve trans people and ensure access to health to “a population with less life expectancy.”