Trump Admin to Block Medicare and Medicaid Funding to Hospitals Performing Child Sex Changes

The Trump administration is taking an enormous step toward ending child sex change interventions.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is unveiling a proposed rule that would cut off Medicare and Medicaid funding to hospitals that perform child sex changes, according to reporting from National Review. 

If finalized, the rule would make it so “hospitals cannot participate in Medicare or Medicaid if they provide sex trait modification services to minors,” National Review reported. 

An administration official told the outlet that the rule would “effectively end sex-trait modifications for minors nationally.”

“Thanks to the leadership of the Trump administration, children will be safer from radical transgender ideology and the sex changes that threaten their bodies, minds, and futures,” said Do No Harm Medical Director Kurt Miceli, MD. “Taxpayer money has no place going towards hospitals and institutions that perform these experimental procedures on minors, and this new rule will help accelerate the closure of so-called pediatric gender clinics across the country. Congress should follow up on this strong action and further ensure taxpayer dollars don’t fund pediatric medical transition in the next reconciliation bill.”

This is just the start of the rulemaking process, but the proposed rule is an absolutely massive step toward dealing a crippling blow to the child transgender industry.

Almost every hospital depends on Medicare and Medicaid funding, and losing this funding would pose an existential threat to these hospitals’ operations.

This will thus strongly incentivize hospitals to no longer provide child sex change interventions.

Since Trump took office, and following an executive order targeting taxpayer funding of child sex change interventions, hospitals across the country have shuttered their child gender programs.

These include some of the most notorious and prolific providers of these procedures, such as Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Seattle Children’s, who each made Do No Harm’s “Dirty Dozen” list of the worst offenders in the child transgender industry.

Additionally, the Department of Justice has subpoenaed numerous providers of child sex changes for information on their practices, while the Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop – at which several Do No Harm fellows provided their expertise – on the child transgender industry’s deceptive practices.

Do No Harm welcomes this action from the Trump administration, and will continue our work protecting children from the harms of gender ideology.