HHS Wants to Cut Funds to Hospitals that Provide Gender-Affirming Care For Trans Youth

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In a statement, Jamila Perritt, president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health, called the proposed rules a “deliberate and targeted attack” on transgender youth and an attempt to strongarm hospitals into choosing between providing pediatric gender-affirming care and accepting federal funding.

The Trump administration wants to cut funds to hospitals that provide gender-affirming health care to transgender youth.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced two proposed rules Thursday which would ban Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program reimbursements for transgender care for youth, and block all Medicaid and Medicare funding to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for minors.