The order directs that federally-run insurance programs exclude coverage for gender affirming care for those under 19 and calls on the Justice Department to pursue litigation to oppose the practice.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to limit access to gender transition surgeries for people younger than 19, marking the president’s latest policy move against transgender rights.

The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in the military from transitioning.

The order would ensure that gender-affirming care for individuals below 19 would be excluded from coverage under federally-run insurance schemes

President Donald Trump directed the federal government not to help with gender transitions for individuals under the age of 19 in an executive order.

The executive order instructs agencies to ensure hospitals and other institutions receiving federal money stop offering gender-affirming care for minors.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to restrict gender-affirming care for people under the age of 19.

President Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that aims to stop the use of puberty blockers, hormones and other forms of gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to all federal funding or support for healthcare that aids the transition of transgender youth, the latest in a series of actions limiting transgender rights in his first eight days in office.