The Justice Department on Wednesday endorsed legislation that would dramatically expand the window for filing lawsuits related to transgender procedures performed on minors, marking the Trump administration ‘s most aggressive step yet to curb what it calls the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of children.

In a legislative proposal transmitted to Congress this week, the DOJ said it supports the Victims of Chemical or Surgical Mutilation Act , or VCSMA. The act would ban medical professionals from performing gender-transition procedures on children and create a private right of action for victims who later decide to “detransition,” a term commonly used to describe the process by which people who went through medical efforts to transition genders decide to live as their biological

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