"The declaration issued last Thursday called treatments like puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries unsafe and ineffective for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria, or the distress when someone's gender expression doesn't match their sex assigned at birth. It also warned doctors that they could be excluded from federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid if they provide those types of care."
"The lawsuit alleges that HHS's declaration seeks to coerce providers to stop providing gender-affirming care and circumvent legal requirements for policy changes. It says federal law requires the public to be given notice and an opportunity to comment before substantively changing health policy neither of which, the suit says"
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the HHS inspector general in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Oregon. The lawsuit challenges a declaration that labeled puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries unsafe and ineffective for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria and warned providers they could be excluded from Medicare and Medicaid. Plaintiffs allege the declaration is inaccurate, unlawful, and intended to coerce providers while bypassing required notice-and-comment rulemaking. HHS also announced proposed rules curtailing care; those rules are not addressed in the suit.
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