"That thought has been hovering just below my consciousness for the past year. Wednesday night it surged above the surface. Since Thursday morning, it's all I can hear."
"First, the House passed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's parting gift, House Resolution 3942, the Protect Children's Innocence Act, which would make providing or seeking gender-affirming care for minors a crime; then, the White House unleashed what trans journalist Erin Reed called "the single most aggressive attack on transgender healthcare in U.S. history," a proposed rule that would bar Medicaid-dependent hospitals from providing gender-affirming care to minors; and finally, on the flip side of the Medicaid strategy, the House voted to cut coverage for youth gender-affirming care."
"While the Senate seems unlikely- please, I think, please- to enact a felony ban on gender-affirming health care for trans youth or approve the cuts to Medicaid coverage, the power of the federal purse strings alone is enough. The Hyde Amendment-like threats to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funds from any hospital which provides such care will force them to stop offering it, and thus eliminate access to it, for the overwhelming majority of trans youth nationwide."
Federal actions are converging to severely restrict gender-affirming care for minors through criminalization, Medicaid rule changes, and funding cuts. A House resolution would make providing or seeking care for trans youth a crime, while a proposed HHS rule would bar Medicaid-dependent hospitals from offering gender-affirming treatments to minors. Additional House votes aim to cut coverage for youth gender-affirming care. The threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funds from hospitals that provide such care will likely force many providers to stop, eliminating access for the vast majority of trans youth except those with significant resources and support.
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