The Federal Bureau of Investigation is encouraging the public to report health care professionals who provide gender-affirming care to minors.

In a post on X on Monday , the agency said, "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."

It encouraged people to report "hospitals, clinics, or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children."

Gender-affirming care includes mental health care, treatments like puberty blockers or hormone therapy and, in rare instances, surgery for those diagnosed with gender dysphoria. But it's something that is hardly ever done with children and handled on a case-by-case basis.

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