RFK Jr. Proposes New Rules to Restrict Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

Declaration on Gender-Affirming Procedures

• ⚠️ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed a declaration stating that sex-altering procedures are neither safe nor effective treatments for children with gender dysphoria.
• 🔬 These procedures are deemed to fail meeting professionally recognized standards of care, and providing them to children is out of compliance with healthcare standards.
• 💡 The declaration serves as a directive for providers to follow scientific evidence indicating these procedures harm children.

Proposed Rules for Medicare and Medicaid

• 🏥 CMS is proposing two new rules to restrict access to these procedures.
• 🚫 The first rule will bar hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid from performing these procedures on minors.
• 💰 The second rule prohibits federal Medicaid dollars from funding sex-altering procedures on minors.

HHS Action on Disability Definition

• ⚖️ Additionally, HHS is moving to reverse the Biden administration's attempt to include gender dysphoria within the definition of disability.