The State Department has announced it will update its list of human rights violations to include the chemical castration and mutilation of children. Each year, the Department releases its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The Trump administration has prioritized scaling back Biden administration priorities. For instance, the Department has removed LGBT “rights” as one of its considerations. Instead, the Department has included the chemical castration and mutilation of children as a violation.

Public opinion is starting to turn against these procedures, and many doctors have expressed support for laws that limit the procedures for children. Other violations to be tracked in future human rights reports include state-funded abortion, free speech and religious liberty infringements, and euthanasia coercion. “This new directive restores the appropriate focus on the established rights of religious freedom and free speech, and clearly takes a position against harm to the most vulnerable,” said Laura Hanford, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

The Department will send a record to Congress of the violations that occur in member states of the United Nations. “In recent years, new destructive ideologies have given safe harbor to human rights violations,” said Tommy Pigott, a spokesman for the Department. “The Trump administration will not allow these human rights violations, such as the mutilation of children . . . to go into unchecked. We are saying enough is enough.”