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Today, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced that HHS would no longer fund so-called "gender-affirming care" for minors.
The proposed rules would prohibit Medicaid funding for gender affirming care for youth, and strip hospitals of all Medicaid and Medicare funding if they continue to offer such care.
“Doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic oath, endangering the very lives that they are sworn to safeguard," said Kennedy. "The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children who suffer from gender dysphoria."
“So called gender affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people,” said Kennedy. "This is not medicine, it is malpractice."
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong quickly issued a comment on the proposed rule change, doubling-down on his protection of the very "care" that Kennedy deemed "malpractice" when performed on "young vulnerable people."
“The proposed rules are just that—proposed rules. Nothing changes today, and gender affirming care remains legal and protected in Connecticut. Donald Trump is not a doctor, and we’re not going to let his cruel political agenda dictate access to healthcare or decimate our hospitals here in Connecticut. We are exploring all legal options to protect Connecticut families and our medical providers,” said Attorney General Tong.
On his first day in office, President Trump signed executive orders declaring that the United States would only recognize two sexes and end federal support for gender ideology. Trump further directed the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue enforcement actions related to "gender-affirming care" for youth. Since then, DOJ has issued subpoenas to providers, requested patient data, and suggested that criminal charges may follow.
Tong believes these efforts "have no legal basis and are intended to discourage providers from offering lifesaving health care that is lawful under state law."
Perhaps Tong missed when HHS published its peer-reviewed study of the medical dangers posed to children from attempts to change their biological sex, Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices?
It's worth adding that, in August, Tong co-led a multistate coalition suing the Trump administration to block the threats of criminal prosecution and federal actions. That pending lawsuit asks the court to "block these actions and protect access to care for patients who need it."
Today’s proposed rules implement a new section of the January Executive Order. The proposed rules would prohibit Medicaid funding for "gender-affirming care" for youth. Hospitals that continue to provide such care would be stripped of the ability to participate in the Medicaid and Medicare programs.
There will be a 60-day notice and comment period before the rules can be finalized. There is no immediate change to Medicaid funding.
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The procedure of medical mutilation for the objective of changing genders will be looked back upon as the equivalent of how frontal lobotomies are viewed today. While we cannot know Mr. Tong's mind, he will have a better chance at the pearly-gates if he truly believes men can actually become women. Should his motives be along the lines of electoral calculations, we can deduce where he will spend his eternity..........