The 2024 Republican frontrunners are unanimously in favor of banning transgender treatments for those under 18 and are campaigning against President Joe Biden’s transgender youth policies.

Biden has repeatedly criticized states for banning gender reassignment treatments for minors, calling the law “hateful.” Euphemistically called “gender-affirming care,” the medical procedures include pubertal blockers, chemical castration, and removal of healthy sexual tissue. White House press secretary Carine Jean-Pierre said the president believes there is no “right” age for the process and that decisions should be left to parents. (Related: ‘Near Sin’: Biden Raises Potential for Nationwide Transgender Law)

Former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, and former Vice President Mike Pence. All of these Republican presidential campaigns said they oppose minors undergoing gender reassignment treatment.

“I am sad to have to say this, but it is wrong for a doctor to perform sex reassignment surgery on a minor. Not only will he be stripped of his medical license, but he will be sent to prison,” DeSantis said in Iowa on Tuesday.

Regarding further restrictions on gender reassignment for minors, DeSantis “will make no compromises” against the objectification of children, DeSantis spokesman Brian Griffin told The Daily Caller.

“Governor DeSantis stands against the objectification of children and those who seek to deprive them of their virginity. I promised, ‘No compromises,'” Griffin said.

President Trump has laid out the most comprehensive plan to ban gender reassignment treatments for minors. In January, he called on Congress to enact a nationwide ban on minors, calling on “all federal agencies to end all programs that promote the concept of sex and transsexuality regardless of age.” He said he intends to issue an executive order to direct.

Ramaswami also condemned gender reassignment treatment for under-18s and told The Daily Caller that it was “cruel” to “‘affirm’ child confusion”.

“It is wrong to treat anorexia with liposuction in the same way that treating a child suffering from gender identity disorder with genital mutilation is inhumane. should be treated as such,” Ramaswamy said.he has before Said It is “perfectly legal” to ban “genital mutilation or chemical castration by puberty blockers” under the age of 18.

Hutchinson said he opposes “sex reassignment surgery for minors” but that the decision should be left to the states.

“As governor, I intend to sign a law banning gender reassignment surgery for minors, but I am signing an executive order that prevents parents from caring for their children because the president wants parents to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19. Both are unconstitutional and wrong, and this should be left to the states,” Hutchinson told the Daily Caller.

A source close to Scott told the Daily Caller that he was “against” minors receiving “gender-positive care.”

South Carolina senators have previously condemned biological males participating in women’s sports.

“If transgender ideology is allowed to continue, women’s sport will be ruined. As a guy who played college football 25 pounds ago, if I was still a primetime athlete 30 years ago, college There is no way in the world to compete with female athletes in the sport, so the truth is, if we want to protect women’s sport and protect the integrity of the game, you, you, take another stand. It’s common knowledge and frankly, I don’t understand why it’s controversial,” Scott said Tuesday on the show “Clay Travis & Buck Sexton.” .

Pence’s reporters told the Daily Caller that he had made past remarks against people undergoing gender reassignment treatment before reaching “adulthood.”

“This idea of ​​allowing children to undergo chemical or surgical transition treatments before they reach adulthood … I am in favor of measures in my local state and across the country that simply ban sex reassignment treatments for young people. and I think it’s in the children’s best interest,” Pence said. Said said in an interview with Scripps.

Republican candidates Larry Elder and Nikki Haley and likely candidate Chris Christie did not respond to inquiries from the Daily Caller.