FBI asks for tips on healthcare facilities 'mutilating' kids 'under guise of gender-affirming care'

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging members of the public to submit tips about any healthcare facilities or practitioners who may be violating the nation's laws by providing sex change surgeries for minors. The federal agency referred to such procedures as "mutilation" under the guise of "gender-affirming care," and vowed to take enforcement action.

"Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care," the FBI wrote in an X post on Monday. "Report tips of any hospitals, clinics, or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children at 1-800-CALL-FBI or http://tips/fbi.gov."

This comes after President Trump in January signed an executive order, titled, "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation," which stated, in part, that "it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures." This applies to anyone under the age of 19.

Attorney General Pam Bondi backed the president's order, writing in an April memo, "The Department of Justice will not sit idly by while doctors, motivated by ideology, profits, or both, exploit and mutilate our children. Under my watch, the Department will act decisively to protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of care."

The executive order threatens to pull federal funding from healthcare facilities that offer such procedures. Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown is spearheading a multi-state lawsuit against the Trump administration over the policy, which argues Fifth Amendment violations.

Child sex change surgeries have been banned in several countries, including the United Kingdom, in recent years after some scientific studies have revealed they cause irreparable harm.