Legal, medical and LGBTQ+ rights experts say President Trump's executive orders attacking transgender people lack scientific merit and raise legal questions. The big picture: Trump's deluge of executive orders during his first week and a half in office has taken aim at transgender people,

The order attempts to end federal funding or support for gender-transition care for people under the age of 19. It is set to face legal challenges.

The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in the military from transitioning.