Bishop Robert Barron has praised a presidential executive order that prohibits the US federal government from promoting or funding transgender surgeries and related procedures for children.
The popular and well-known US bishop – who has emerged as a latter-day Bishop Fulton Sheen for the digital age – highlighted that “helping young people accept their bodies and their vocation as women and men is the true path to freedom and happiness”.
President Donald Trump signed the executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” on 28 January. The order declares that “it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support” transgender surgeries for children, “and it will vigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit” such procedures.
