"“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, and therefore, fail to meet professional recognized standards of health care. For the purposes of this declaration, 'sex-rejecting procedures' means pharmaceutical or surgical interventions, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries such as mastectomies, vaginoplasties, and other procedures, that attempt to align an individual's physical appearance or body with an asserted identity that differs from the individual's sex.”"
"“pursuant to the authority vested in the HHS Secretary,” and supersedes “statewide or national standards of care, whether in writing or not ... .” Any medical provider who defies Kennedy's random musings on trans health “will be deemed not to meet professionally recognized standards of health care,” and, by implication, could lose Medicare and Medicaid funding."
"“Just days after the Declaration was announced, the health department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) began threatening certain hospitals with the total loss of funding unless transgender services were suspended. The OIG sent letters to 17 medical entities befo”"
A federal judge in Oregon ruled that the anti-trans Kennedy Declaration was unconstitutional and could not be upheld. The declaration stated that sex-rejecting procedures for children and adolescents are neither safe nor effective for gender dysphoria or related disorders and therefore fail professional health care standards. It defined sex-rejecting procedures as pharmaceutical or surgical interventions, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries such as mastectomies and vaginoplasties, aimed at aligning physical appearance with an asserted identity. The declaration claimed authority vested in the HHS Secretary and said it superseded statewide or national standards of care. Providers defying the declaration would be deemed not to meet professionally recognized standards and could lose Medicare and Medicaid funding. Shortly after the declaration, the HHS Office of the Inspector General threatened hospitals with total loss of funding unless transgender services were suspended.
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