HHS unleashes sweeping crackdown on child ‘sex-rejecting procedures,’ threatens hospital, Medicaid funding (e

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced regulatory actions to defund hospitals providing gender transition procedures to minors under Trump's executive order.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rolled out policy proposals that would bar hospitals from carrying out performing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and certain surgeries on patients under 18 as a "condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs." The majority of U.S. hospitals participate in Medicare and Medicaid, according to HHS. 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released another proposed rule that would block federal Medicaid funding for procedures aimed at altering the sex of a child under the ag of 18, which HHS said also will apply to federal funding to the Children’s Health Insurance Program for the same procedures on individuals under the age of 19.