Argentina’s Presidential Office announced on Wednesday that the President Javier Miley She made the decision to ban gender change treatments and surgery for minors, as well as to impose limits on trans women hosted in women’s prisons.

At a press conference, the representative of the presidency Manuel adorni He said the ban would include hormone therapy and followed similar upheavals in trans laws on countries such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland and the United Statesand sought to protect children’s mental health.

The announcement comes days after thousands of Argentines protested in favor of LGBT+ rights after Milei made a speech In Davos, Switzerlandin which he questioned “Feminism, diversity, integration, abortions, environmentalism and gender ideology”calling the progressive policies ‘Cancer to be eliminated’, as Reuters reports.

“The President cannot amend a law by a decree. And if he tries we will go to the Judicial Corps and to the Median Court if needed. “said the Argentine LGBT+ Federation in X, noting that the existing law does not allow for sex surgery.

“Gender ideology taken at the extremities and applied to children with violence or psychological coercion constitutes a clear child abuse”, He mentioned the office in a statement.

Gender surgery is done very rarely in children worldwide and trans minors should generally be medically evaluated and diagnosed with sex discomfort before adolescence or hormonal therapies begin.

The far -right Mile will also order ‘Prisoners will be housed according to gender that are registered at the time of crime being committed »he said his office.

Regardless of this, he added, no trans woman will be housed in a women’s prison If convicted of sexual crimes, trafficking people or violent crimes against women.

“This decision will allow a much more reasonable system that will guarantee the safety of all female prisoners and end the insanity that is pushed by the miserable gender ideology.”said Antorn.

Milei’s office did not give details of how many trans women were housed in women’s prisons or convicted of such crimes, nor did he mention how the change would affect the intermediax, who are born with non -binary biological characteristics.

The announcement came shortly after an American judge blocked an executive decree signed by President Donald Trump On the first day of his term of office, which will carry the 16 trans women housed in women’s prisons in men’s institutions and ending the care for sex change. Most trans women in the US are in men’s prisons.