Chile passes new law banning state-funded surgical and hormonal interventions for minors

12/09/2024 / By Laura Harris

Chile has passed a new law banning state-funded surgical and hormonal interventions for minors following a report that a government policy has been providing these services to their citizens.

According to the Chilean Congressional investigative committee, the Creciendo con Orgullo (Growing with Pride) program, known as PAIG, has been offering family interventions, referrals to hormone therapies and even legal actions against parents who resisted the gender transition of their children across 37 hospitals. PAIG has treated 4,142 minors in those clinics, despite ongoing medical and scientific debates and policy reversals in some European countries regarding such treatments.

However, this program should provide the opposite: positive support and guidance to gender-distressed minors.

This report was supported by the mobilization of activists and a parental group named Kairos, the final report from England’s Cass review and coverage from journalist Sabine Drysdale in the national media outlet BioBio. (Related: American College of Pediatricians calls out all major medical organizations pushing gender mutilation of children.)

“Until May 29, when my article in Biobio was released, most Chileans were in the dark about gender-affirming therapies being given to minors,” Drysdale said. “The terms gender dysphoria, puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones were not in the public domain. Chilean people had no idea doctors were freely prescribing these drugs at the first appointment to vulnerable and mentally distressed children who went to see them with their terrified parents who had been told, ‘Trans your kid or they will commit suicide.'”

“Very few people knew these drugs were going to convert healthy children into infertile, menopausal, anorgasmic young people – into adults suffering osteoporosis, metabolic diseases and other severe health conditions that lower the quality and span of their lives. It was not talked about.”

In turn, the document, backed by National Renewal, the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), the Social Christian Party and the Republican Party, called for the immediate suspension of the Gender Identity Support Program.

The Chilean Senate also approved a new law restricting government spending on interventions for individuals under 18, with 22-19 votes in favor of the ban, on Nov. 20 following a similar veto by the lower house.

This would prohibit the Ministry of Health from funding hormonal or surgical treatments for gender-confused minors, regardless of whether minors are diagnosed with conditions such as gender dysphoria, gender incongruence or gender non-conformity.

Henriquez: Other countries in Latin America must follow Chile

Chile has become the first country in Latin America to restrict state-funded surgical and hormonal interventions for minors.

In line with this, Tomas Henriquez, director of advocacy for Latin America, commended the Chilean Senate for passing the law and described it as a crucial step in protecting children from the dangers of gender ideology.

“The first of its kind in Latin America, this sets a major precedent for the protection of children not just in Chile but also in all Latin American countries. Chile is to be commended for taking an important step in saying no to the dangers of gender ideology,” he said.

Henriquez urged other Latin American countries to adopt a similar measure to safeguard children from radical medical procedures with potentially harmful consequences.

“Now other countries must do the same. Every child is precious just as they are and has the absolute right to be safeguarded from a radical ideology that promotes dangerous drugs and surgeries with devastating consequences,” he said.

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