President Donald Trump’s executive order cutting funding for hospitals that medically transition children is now baring teeth. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing new rules to align with the xo that will effectively cut off federal funding from hospitals that medically transition kids. There is a 60-day public comment period before the rules can be made official.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed new rules on Thursday barring hospitals from performing what the administration calls “sex-rejecting procedures on children” under age 18 from receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.
Nearly all hospitals in the U.S. accept Medicare and Medicaid funding, so the new rules would tie the hands of providers who have been supplying puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors, as well as those who perform gender transition surgeries, including mastectomies, phalloplasty, or vaginoplasty.
The new proposed rules follow through on an executive order from President Donald Trump from January that instructed agencies to restrict access to gender transition medical treatments for minors under 19.