"One of the new proposed rules would ban hospitals that provide gender affirming care to youth under 18 from receiving Medicaid and Medicare funds. Another proposed rule would bar Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for youth under 18 and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from covering such care for youth under 19. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., along with other officials, formally announced the proposed rules at an event on Thursday morning."
"In his remarks, Kennedy cast gender affirming care as "sex-rejecting" procedures that impose "lasting harm" on children. "This is not medicine. It is malpractice," Kennedy said. "We're done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the well-being of children.""
"Gender-affirming care for youth, backed by major medical organizations to treat gender dysphoria, varies depending on the patient's age and circumstances. For those entering adolescence, providers can prescribe puberty blockers, which temporarily halt hormones causing puberty and are also prescribed to cisgender youth who undergo early puberty. Research has shown that puberty blockers significantly reduce depression and risk of suicide in trans and non-binary youth and that gender-affirming care also reduces depression in transgender adults."
HHS proposed rules would ban hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to people under 18 from receiving Medicaid and Medicare funds. Another proposed rule would bar Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for youth under 18 and prevent CHIP from covering such care for those under 19. HHS characterized gender-affirming care as "sex-rejecting" and as imposing "lasting harm" on children, calling it "not medicine" and "malpractice" driven by "junk science." Gender-affirming care varies by age and circumstances; puberty blockers can pause puberty and research links such care to reduced depression and suicide risk in transgender youth.
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