"Politics Thursday's announcements would imperil access in nearly two dozen states where drug treatments and surgical procedures remain legal and funded by Medicaid, which includes federal and state dollars. WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administration restrictions on transgender Americans."
"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, who called the changes a "one-size-fits-all mandate from the federal government""
HHS unveiled regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors by cutting federal Medicaid and Medicare funding to hospitals that provide such care and prohibiting federal Medicaid dollars from funding those procedures. The measures build on earlier Trump administration restrictions and target puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical interventions for transgender children. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called gender-affirming procedures malpractice. The rules would imperil access in nearly two dozen states where Medicaid currently funds treatments. Major U.S. medical organizations oppose the proposals, and advocates warn the changes would put transgender youth lives at risk.
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