2024 presidential candidates on transgender healthcare

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This page includes statements from the 2024 presidential candidates on transgender healthcare. These statements were compiled from each candidate's official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and debates.

The candidates featured on this page were the noteworthy Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Only candidates who addressed this page's issue on their campaign website, in public statements, or in public speeches have a quote featured on this page. See something we missed? Email us. The active noteworthy presidential candidates as of November 5, 2025, were:

Kamala Harris (D)
Donald Trump (R)
Chase Oliver (L)
Jill Stein (G)

Transgender healthcare

Democratic candidates

Joe Biden

At a press conference Biden said, "It’s wrong that extreme officials are pushing hateful bills targeting transgender children, terrifying families, and criminalizing doctors. These are our kids. These are our neighbors. It’s cruel and it’s callous. Not somebody else’s kids; they’re all our kids. They’re the kids — and our children are the kite strings that hold our national ambitions aloft. It matters a great deal how we treat everyone in this country." ^{[source, as of 2023-06-08]}

Kamala D. Harris

Harris' campaign website said, "As President, she’ll fight to pass the Equality Act to enshrine anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQI+ Americans in health care, housing, education, and more into law." ^{[source, as of 2024-09-09]}

Republican candidates

Ron DeSantis

In a Republican debate DeSantis said, "As a parent, you do not have the right to abuse your kids. This is cutting off their genitals. This is mutilating. These minors, these are irreversible procedures and this is something that other countries in Europe like Sweden, once they started doing it, they saw it did incalculable damage. They’ve shut it down. I signed legislation in Florida banning the mutilation of minors because it is wrong. We cannot allow this to happen in this country." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-06]}

Nikki Haley

In a Republican debate Haley said, "If you have to be 18 to get a tattoo, you should have to be 18 to have anything done to change your gender." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-06]}

Vivek Ramaswamy

Ramaswamy's campaign website listed the following policy, "Protect American children: ban addictive social media under age 16 & gender confusion 'care' for minors." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}

Donald Trump

Trump's campaign website said, "I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age. I will then ask Congress to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures, and pass a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states. It’ll go very quickly. I will declare that any hospital or healthcare provider that participates in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth will no longer meet federal health and safety standards for Medicaid and Medicare—and will be terminated from the program immediately." ^{[source, as of 2023-12-21]}