Seattle Children’s first target of RFK Jr.’s threat to end funds to hospitals...

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Seattle Children's first target of RFK Jr.'s threat to end funds to hospitals treating trans youth

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/seattle-childrens-first-target-of-rfk-jr-s-threat-to-end-funds-to-hospitals-treating-trans-youth/ 🔗

John Gallagher (28 Dec 2025)

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has identified his first target following his declaration earlier this month to cut off Medicaid and Medicare funding to any hospital that provides health care to trans youth. Last Friday in a social media post, HHS announced that it was referring Seattle Children's Hospital for investigation for providing gender-affirming care to trans youth.

The post said that the investigation was warranted "for failure to meet professional recognized standards of health care as according to Secretary Kennedy's declaration that sex-rejecting procedures for children and adolescents are neither safe nor effective as a treatment modality for gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, or other related disorders in minors."

Of course, Kennedy's declaration was simply that–a declaration with no basis in science. Medical societies have rejected Kennedy's anti-science stance, which has led Kennedy to cut off money for them as well.

Kennedy's declaration, made on Dec. 18, is a nuclear option to pressure hospitals to drop care for trans youth. Hospitals rely upon federal payments for treatment of Medicare and Medicaid patients. Without that money, hospitals, which are already struggling with difficult finances, will lose millions of dollars. Federal funding through Medicare and Medicaid accounts for nearly 45% of all spending on hospital care, according to KFF, the nonprofit health policy research group.

[Susan ✅]

The first judge this goes before will reject it

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