PRESS RELEASE: Trump Administration challenges U.N.’s transgender agenda

By C-Fam Staff | August 28, 2026

U.S. amendments to protect children from“sex-rejecting procedures” leads to withdrawal of mental health resolution

UNITED NATIONS –  The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) praised the Trump Administration for proposing amendments to a United Nations (U.N.) resolution on mental health and psychosocial support opposing the use of medical interventions and “sex-rejecting procedures” on children who may be experiencing “gender dysphoria.” The resolution sponsor, Mexico, withdrew the resolution to prevent a vote before the entire General Assembly.

The U.S. amendments pointed to the “increasing numbers of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria” and the “increased use of pharmacological and surgical interventions as treatments for pediatric gender dysphoria.” 

The amendments call on governments to explore alternatives to sex-rejecting procedures and to ensure that children who experience gender dysphoria have access to mental health and psychosocial support.

“This is another courageous attempt by the Trump Administration to sideline the aggressive transgender lobby at the U.N. driven by human rights groups and the European Union’s post-Christian ideology that rejects natural law and scientific reality,” said Stefano Gennarini, C-Fam’s Vice President for Legal Studies. “Standing up to these aggressive forces that have pushed these policies for years is welcomed by African countries and others who oppose this destructive and harmful agenda.”

In 2019, the World Health Organization reclassified “gender dysphoria” as a medical condition and no longer as a mental health condition under the new name ‘gender incongruence.” The new classification makes treatment through pharmacological and surgical interventions a matter of course instead of mental health and psychosocial support, as before.

The U.S. amendments also call on governments to rely on “high-quality evidence concerning the effects of sex-rejecting interventions on psychological outcomes, quality of life, regret, and long-term health.” They endorse evidence-based medicine, specifically “long-term observational studies with parallel control groups that are based on sufficiently large cohorts.” 

“The U.N. system and other global bodies aggressively promote medical interventions for children despite the strong evidence of their devastating psychological and physical side-effects,” said Rebecca Oas, PhD., C-Fam’s Director of Research.  “High-quality health practices for children requires solid evidence-based care, not ideologically based crackpot theories.”

A 2023 Guide on “Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice” produced by the U.N. human rights office together with the World Health Organization, summarizes instances of the U.N, system promoting sex-rejecting procedures for children, as well as government funded hormone treatment for minors, access to opposite sex spaces (i.e. bathrooms, locker rooms, prisons) based on subjective gender identity, and restrictions on therapeutic freedom to help children overcome gender dysphoria.

A 2025 Health & Human Service report titled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” found no evidence of the effectiveness of such treatments and found many short- and long-term adverse effects likely to result from sex-rejecting interventions  including infertility and sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density development, adverse cognitive effect, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, psychiatric conditions, surgical complications, and regret, among others.

“The battle of worldviews is clearly evident at the U.N. The U.S. has shown great resolve to challenge these illogical, unscientific procedures that harm children,” said Gennarini. 

Founded in 1997 to monitor and affect the social policy debate at the United Nations, C-Fam is a non-partisan, non-profit research institute dedicated to reestablishing a proper understanding of international law, protecting national sovereignty and the dignity of the human person.

For more information or to schedule an interview with Stefano Gennarini or Rebecca Oas, please contact media@c-fam.org.

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