Things To Know About How Trump's Policies Target Transgender People

President Donald Trump has targeted transgender and nonbinary people with a series of executive orders since he returned to office.

He has done it with strong language. In one executive order, he asserted "medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child's sex."

That's a dramatic reversal of the policies of former President Joe Biden's administration - and of major medical organizations - that supported gender-affirming care.

American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Sruti Swaminathan said that to be put into effect, provisions of the orders should first go through federal rulemaking procedures, which can be years long and include the chance for public comment.

"When you have the nation's commander-in-chief demonizing transgender people, it certainly sends a signal to all Americans," said Sarah Warbelow, the legal director at Human Rights Campaign.