HHS to Defund Hospitals Over Youth Trans Surgeries

The Trump administration has begun taking steps to ban federal reimbursement money to hospitals that provide gender-changing surgeries to minors, it was reported Thursday.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will announce a proposal banning Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals that provide the procedures, the National Review reported.

A senior administration official told the outlet that, if approved, the rule will “effectively end sex-trait modifications for minors nationally.”

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