Argentina's government announces that it will ban gender transition procedures for minors, part of President Javier Milei's war on what he has called "woke ideology". The move comes a week after US President Donald Trump restricted the procedures for people younger than 19.
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00:00The national government also decided to modify the Gender Identity Law
00:05and to prohibit the treatments of hormonization and the surgeries of body adaptation in minors of 18 years.
00:12These interventions, to which children are exposed, are a serious risk to their health,
00:18both physical and mental, since they imply an interruption in their maturation process.
00:24In addition, in many cases, the effects of these treatments and surgeries are irreversible.