President-elect Donald Trump has not yet announced who will lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), but he has signaled he will take several steps to curtail “gender-affirming” care for minors across the country. are.
In a video posted to Truth Social in February 2023, President Trump said that his plan to “stop the chemical, physical, and psychological mutilation of young people” includes any program that supports or facilitates gender reassignment. He said that includes issuing an executive order directing all federal agencies to cease operations. At any age.
“I call on Congress to permanently end federal taxpayer dollars being used to facilitate and pay for these procedures and to pass legislation in all 50 states to ban child sexual mutilation,” Trump said in a video. I request you to do so.”
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President-elect Donald Trump (left) and President Biden meet on November 13, 2024. (AP)
President Trump announced plans to ban hospitals and health care providers that treat minors from participating in Medicaid and Medicare. He also pledged to support legal measures that would allow affected individuals to sue doctors who perform these procedures on minors.
President Trump went on to say, “The Department of Justice is investigating big drug companies and major hospital networks to find out whether they intentionally covered up the long-term, horrific side effects of gender reassignment in order to make money at the expense of vulnerable patients.'' I will decide,” he added.
Mr. Trump successfully focused on transgender issues in the final campaign of his campaign with ads that focused on men in women's sports. vice president kamala harris A track record of leading the gender reassignment process for incarcerated people in California.
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A transgender flag on a pole. Texas SB14, if signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, would ban gender-affirming treatment and therapy for transgender youth. (Getty Images)
“Kamala is for them, President Trump is for you,” the narrator of a Trump campaign ad said. Experts say the TV spots had a huge impact on swing voters.
Over the past four years, the Biden-Harris administration has used federal agencies such as the Justice Department to expand access to surgery for minors. Under the Biden administration, HHS enacted regulations that interpret the term “sex discrimination” in the Affordable Care Act to include gender identity and sexual orientation.
The expanded definition under Title IX meant that health care providers who did not offer gender reassignment surgery, regardless of age, risked losing federal funding under the Biden-Harris rule. The rule was blocked by the Supreme Court in August.
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President Biden (right) speaks with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In June, health authorities Biden administration He successfully urged the World Association of Transgender Health Professionals, an international transgender health nonprofit, to omit age limits in its guidelines for transgender surgeries for adolescents, according to undisclosed court documents. .
More than 25 states in the United States have enacted bans and restrictions. Surgical procedures and hormone prescriptions For transgender youth. Approximately 24 states still allow sex reassignment surgery and drug treatment for children.
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In recent days, Mr. Trump has announced personnel changes to his administration much more quickly than he did during his first term. HHS candidates investigated by Fox News Digital include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Eric Hagan, former HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Seema Verma, Paul Mango and Joseph Ladapo. , Roger Severino, Brian Blades, and Joe Grogan were found to be included.
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