"The sweeping proposals - the most significant moves this administration has taken so far to restrict the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical interventions for transgender children - include cutting off federal Medicaid and Medicare funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to children and prohibiting federal Medicaid dollars from being used to fund such procedures."
""This is not medicine, it is malpractice," Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said of gender-affirming procedures on children in a news conference on Thursday. "Sex-rejecting procedures rob children of their futures.""
"The proposals run counter to the recommendations of most major U.S. medical organizations. And advocates for transgender children strongly refuted the administration's claims about gender-affirming care and said Thursday's moves would put lives at risk. "The multitude of efforts we are seeing from federal legislators to strip transgender and nonbinary youth of the health care they need is deeply troubling," said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, of The Trevor Project, a nonprofit suicide prevention organization for LBGTQ+ youth."
HHS unveiled regulatory actions to block gender-affirming care for minors, targeting puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical interventions. The rules would cut federal Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide such care and prohibit federal Medicaid dollars from funding these procedures. Gender-affirming procedures on children were characterized as malpractice and described as robbing children of their futures. The proposals conflict with recommendations from major U.S. medical organizations. Advocates warn that the actions could endanger transgender and nonbinary youth and reduce access in states where Medicaid currently covers care. Medicaid coverage varies by state, with at least 27 states adopting restrictions or bans.
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