"Today, the Trump administration announced new rules that would end gender-affirming care for minors at hospitals across the country. At a news conference led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the administration said it would bar all federal funding for any hospital in the United States that provided the care. Federal funding through Medicare and Medicaid accounts for nearly 45% of all spending on hospital care, according to KFF, the nonprofit health policy research group."
"The administration is targeting all gender-related treatments for minors, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries. Gender-affirming genital surgeries are never performed on minors, while some older teens who meet certain requirements can only rarely access some other kinds of surgeries. The announcement comes amid an onslaught of new regulations and proposed legislation banning the care that goes far beyond previous efforts, and advances Donald Trump's erasure of transgender identity, beginning with his executive order in January recognizing only "two sexes: male and female.""
"Federal funding through Medicare and Medicaid accounts for nearly 45% of all spending on hospital care, according to KFF, the nonprofit health policy research group. Stopping it would be "a death sentence - hospitals have such razor-thin margins as it is," Caroline Farrell, a former lawyer for the office of general counsel at HHS, told The New York Times. The proposed rule "means just forcing them to stop the care," she said."
The administration announced rules that end gender-affirming care for minors at hospitals nationwide and will bar all federal funding to any hospital providing that care. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. led a news conference announcing the funding prohibition. Medicare and Medicaid together account for nearly 45% of hospital spending, a share likely to force financially constrained hospitals to cease those services. The policy targets all gender-related treatments for minors, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy; genital surgeries are not performed on minors. The action follows broader regulatory and legislative moves and an executive order recognizing only two sexes.
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