The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is asking the public for tips on hospitals or practitioners who are performing “gender-affirming” surgeries on minors. It’s illegal, and it’s mutilation, says the FBI.

Is the FBI fibbing about the law? To an extent.

The bureau’s announcement follows President Donald Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order , “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” which attempted to ban childhood medical transition by defunding any federally supported institution that carries out these procedures. The order was challenged in court , in an ongoing case called PFLAG v. Trump, and an injunction prevents its implementation.

This hasn’t stopped the FBI’s assistant director for public affairs, Ben Williamson , from calling such surgerie

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