By Katelynn Richardson
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced major initiatives on Thursday designed to stop hospitals from offering sex change procedures for minors.
Two new proposed rules will prohibit Medicaid dollars from funding sex-change procedures for minors and restrict Medicare and Medicaid-participating hospitals from performing these procedures on minors.
“The Trump Administration will not stand by while ideology, misinformation and propaganda push vulnerable young people into decisions they cannot fully understand and that they can never reverse,” Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.
NEW: HHS announces major actions to protect minors from child sex-change procedures.
Under new proposed rules, Medicaid dollars cannot fund child sex-changes. Hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid are prohibited from offering these procedures.
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— Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) December 18, 2025
The HHS released a review in May highlighting the lack of evidence for the “gender-affirming” model of care.
The House voted to pass a bill on Wednesday criminalizing child sex change procedures.
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