Argentina's president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18

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Argentina’s president has signed a decree banning gender-affirming care for people under age 18, a presidential spokesperson said Wednesday. (Video courtesy of Argentina Presidency, AP)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/2/6/argentina-s-president-bans-gender-affirming-care-for-people-under-age-18  Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5664f6TkaeHgwBly50DWZQ/join  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00In this same line, I would like to tell you that the national government has decided to

00:07also modify the Gender Identity Law and to prohibit the treatments of

00:12hormonalization and the surgeries of body adaptation in minors of 18 years.

00:17The Gender Identity Law today allows people to be subject to

00:23treatments of hormonalization and to surgical interventions in order to

00:28adapt their body to the gender with which they actually identify.

00:36These interventions to which children are exposed is a serious risk to their

00:46health, both physical and mental, since it implies an interruption in their

00:50maturation process. In addition, in many cases, the effects of these

00:55treatments and surgeries are irreversible. Pioneer countries of gender change,

01:01such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland and, until recently, the United States,

01:07are taking a step back, prohibiting minors from being subject to these

01:12processes for considering them irreversible and with devastating consequences in the long term.

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