On Jan. 28, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to restrict access to gender affirming care for transgender minors. The order calls for reversal of previously federally supported gender affirming care for those under 19.

The order follows another order he signed in first few days in office stating that the United States Government, “will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another.”

“Across the country today,” The White House’s website says, “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 through a series of irreversible medical interventions.  This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”

Trump has proposed multiple bills regarding transgender people, including a military ban for transgender service members in 2018 during his first term. Trump’s administration also has expressed support and acted on plans in the political initiative “Project 2025.”

“Overall,” sophomore Riley Rizzo, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, told The Messenger. “It’s a good concern to have, because all of these are irreversible changes it’s going to be hard if you ever do eventually change your mind … but I know for a lot of trans people, it is very unlikely to because once you figure it out, you figure it out.”

An additional proposed rule goes further to push the issue, blocking medicare and medicaid funding for hospitals that provide gender affirming care for those under 19, NPR reported.

Senior Vice President of Equality Programs at the Human Rights Program, Ellen Kahn says, “this latest attempt to strip best-practice health care from trans young people would place parents and doctors in an impossible position in service of the far-right’s culture war on transgender people.”