DOJ, HHS, FTC, FDA: Alphabet Soup of Efforts to Restrict Gender-Affirming Care

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DOJ, HHS, FTC, FDA: The Alphabet Soup of Efforts to Restrict Gender-Affirming Care

https://www.them.us/answers-and-advice/health/federal-agencies-gender-affirming-care-attacks 🔗

Orion Rummler (7 July 2026)

The United States is using the full power of the federal government to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

The American Psychological Association has accused the Trump administration of ignoring science and undermining mental health through its anti-trans policies. Groups including Planned Parenthood, AIDS United and the Human Rights Campaign see these tactics as a serious threat to the private medical information of everyone, not just trans people. If doctors can't provide treatment without fear of political retaliation, these advocacy groups say, public health will be harmed.

In response to pressure from the administration, many hospitals across the country have stopped seeing young trans patients, including some in states where gender-affirming care is protected.

Youth transition care is banned in 27 states, according to KFF, a nonpartisan health policy organization — and 24 states impose penalties against healthcare practitioners who provide it. Half of trans teenagers in the United States live in states where care is already banned, per the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.

We break down how federal agencies are taking unprecedented action to keep physicians from providing the care and what's coming next...

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