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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Geoff Mulvihill

How Trump has spent his first weeks targeting transgender and nonbinary people

White House staff secretary Will Scharf talks with President Donald Trump after he signed executive order - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

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.”

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