Title: HHS Sec. Kennedy Attempts To Stop Trans Youth Care In Hospitals Nationwide—Before New Federal Rules Take Effect. Link To: Article 🔗 [Link: erininthemorning.com/p/hhs-sec-kennedy-attempts-to-stop/] Author: S Baum
Date: 24 December 2025
Brief summary of the articleThe article says the Trump administration is using HHS and CMS rules to pressure hospitals to stop providing gender-affirming care to minors by threatening loss of Medicare and Medicaid funding.
Critics argue there is no federal ban, that the move attacks established medical standards and that it relies on fear and uncertainty rather than law. Legal challenges are expected, while supporters frame it as protecting children from what they call junk science.
"declare that a hospital 'must not perform sex-rejecting procedures on any child' in order to participate in Medicaid at all."
"threatens to withdraw federal funds from hospitals that potentially offer young trans people such treatments, including hormone replacement therapy and puberty blockers."
"takes aim at medical organizations like the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the Endocrine Society, both of which endorse the gold standards of evidence-based interventions."
"often called the 'death penalty' for health care providers."
"a provider cannot survive if excluded from participating in the federal health programs of Medicare and Medicaid."
"There is no federal law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth."
"this kind of piecemeal and disheveled rulemaking is enforced at least in part by fear and sheer uncertainty."
"This declaration is an abuse of a policy document that is widely known to be intended for national public health emergencies and other crises."
"Providers performing standard-of-care medicine that their patients need is not such an emergency."
"As the media frenzy fixated on the fallout, another document was also released by the HHS."
"Doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect children. We're done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits."
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