(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a multi-pronged regulatory effort Thursday to curtail gender-affirming care for minors, including gender transition procedures at hospitals.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has drafted a rule that would prohibit pharmaceutical or surgical gender reassignment procedures from receiving federal Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program funding. It’s also proposing a rule that would allow it to withdraw Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that perform such surgeries on minors. HHS is also working to “reverse the Biden administration’s attempt” to classify gender dysphoria as a type of disability. If gender dysphoria were to be defined as a disability, then health care providers who don’t want to perform what the department has dubbed “sex-rejecting” procedures could be in danger of violating anti-discrimination laws.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr., described gender affirming procedures as “unsafe” and “irreversible,” and framed the administration’s actions as “[protecting] America’s most vulnerable.”
“Our children deserve better – and we are delivering on that promise,” Kennedy told reporters Thursday.
The department is acting on directives from an executive order from President Donald Trump’s first few weeks in office. The Jan. 28 order called on government agencies to “[defund] chemical and surgical mutilation” of children, seemingly in the manner that HHS has proposed, as well as “rescind or amend all policies” relying on guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
The Food and Drug Administration is also taking regulatory action against some organizations that market breast binders to minors.
“Illegal marketing of these products for children is alarming, and the FDA will take further enforcement action such as import alerts, seizures, and injunctions if it continues,” said Food and Drug Commissioner Marty Makary.
Kennedy signed a declaration Thursday that gender affirming procedures for minors “do not meet professionally recognized standards of health care” and the Assistant Secretary for Health and Head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Admiral Brian Christine, signed a public health message stating the same.
“Evidence shows sex-rejecting puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries are dangerous. Providers have an obligation to offer care grounded in evidence and to avoid interventions that expose young people to a lifetime of harm,” Christine said.
The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would criminalize the act of providing gender affirming care to minors.
Children only know what they are taught. When a sexually perverted adults teaches children the sexual previsions of the deranged sexually perverted LGBTQ, then that is Child Abuse and they should be charged with “Child Abuse”. When doctors sexually disfigure children, that is deliberate malpractice and the should be in prison. There is nothing more innocent than a young child. These young are taught to be good or bad, honorable or dishonorable, moral or immoral it, all lies with the adult caretakers.
Can we at least call it what it is: “gender-denying mutilation”?
It’s fine for your child to want to dress up as Mickey Mouse for Halloween. It’s even fine if he wants to do that on a few other special occasions.
It’s another thing altogether for him to believe he is Mickey Mouse, and demand rhinoplasty, and have giant ears sewn onto the top of his head permanently.
And it’s nothing short of insane for a parent to give in to his demands, and for anyone to demand that all of us accommodate this insanity.
AND Child abuse!!!
Yes! Why use the Lefts stealth language? Gender affirming, my arse!
My daughter and I were wrapping gifts for Christmas. She didn’t want to use BLUE paper for the 8 years old boy.
“I don’t want to mis-gender him.” She said. To which I replied “You already have.”
If the medical profession were fallowing their hippocratic oath the government would not have to step in to protect the children!!! First do no harm! Which means don’t mutilate the children for life!