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Title: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children
Post by: Jessica_Rose on December 18, 2025, 02:52:31 PM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on December 18, 2025, 02:52:31 PM
Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-administration-moves-to-cut-off-transgender-care-for-children/ar-AA1SC2j9?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=b017a9afe0b74b4df26f8a049d1fc2ec&ei=88
ALI SWENSON, MATTHEW PERRONE and DEVI SHASTRI (18 Dec 2025)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to block access to gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administration restrictions on transgender Americans.
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."
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.
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.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-administration-moves-to-cut-off-transgender-care-for-children/ar-AA1SC2j9?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=b017a9afe0b74b4df26f8a049d1fc2ec&ei=88
ALI SWENSON, MATTHEW PERRONE and DEVI SHASTRI (18 Dec 2025)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to block access to gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administration restrictions on transgender Americans.
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."
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.
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.
Title: Re: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children
Post by: Lori Dee on December 18, 2025, 03:05:08 PM
Post by: Lori Dee on December 18, 2025, 03:05:08 PM
Quote from: Jessica_Rose on Yesterday at 02:52:31 PM"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."
Stated with authority by someone with zero medical training. Bureaucracy should never govern medicine.
Title: Re: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children
Post by: Charlotte_Ringwood on December 18, 2025, 03:23:51 PM
Post by: Charlotte_Ringwood on December 18, 2025, 03:23:51 PM
There are few people I truely hate in this world. I think we know who one of them is.