Abigail Shrier: How the Gender Fever Finally Broke

On that day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order announcing that the federal government would no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called transition of a child from one sex to another, and that it would rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.

To the practitioners and promoters and numberless devotees of pediatric gender affirming care a euphemism for the vast apparatus pushing junk science on vulnerable children and confused families it came as a much-needed slap in the face.

If it seems odd that the spell of pediatric gender medicine should have been ended by politicians and not physicians, consider that in America, politics is how it began. Specifically, it began with Obamacare.

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama s signature legislation incentivizing and coercing private insurers to offer their products on a government exchange, prohibited those companies from discriminating on the basis of sex. And in May 2016, six years after the bill s enactment, the Obama administration s Department of Health and Human Services added this fateful qualification: Discrimination on the basis of sex was to include discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

Obama effectively wrote into law, through healthcare, that gender identity is a protected class, healthcare executive and gender-medicine researcher Zhenya Abbruzzese told me. And that opened a huge new source of funding for these treatments. Because once these insurers feel like they have to cover it, that s it. You have just turned on the engine, Abbruzzese said.

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In addition to Obamacare, there’s also the loathsome Pritzker clan.