President Donald Trump came into office with a broad agenda that included addressing the ongoing public debate over transgenderism — and in particular the push by some leftists to experiment on children with hormones and so-called gender-reassignment surgeries.
For his part, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz reiterated the Trump administration’s stance in an unequivocal statement about Medicaid funding at the state level.
According to Breitbart:
“As a doctor and now CMS Administrator, my top priority is protecting children and upholding the law. Medicaid dollars are not to be used for gender reassignment surgeries or hormone treatments in minors – procedures that can cause permanent, irreversible harm, including sterilization,” Oz said in a written statement obtained by Breitbart News.
“We have a duty to ensure medical care is lawful, necessary, and truly in the best interest of patients. CMS will not support services that violate this standard or place vulnerable children at risk. It is a CMS responsibility to steward Medicaid dollars and ensure resources focus on protecting our most vulnerable,” he continued.
Oz wrote to state Medicaid directors to ensure that state Medicaid agencies are “aware of growing evidence regarding certain procedures offered to children, and to remind states of their responsibility to ensure that Medicaid payments are consistent with quality of care and that covered services are provided in a manner consistent with the best interest of recipients.”
The issue of transgender procedures performed on minors has been a hotly contested one in recent years, across the U.S. and much of the West:
Yes, American doctors are performing “vaginoplasties” on minors—castrating young males and creating artificial vaginas out of their penile tissue.https://t.co/LzLsZpeeRU pic.twitter.com/6NgBGitZZh
— Christopher F. Rufo
(@realchrisrufo) August 17, 2022
Remember how they keep saying “ we are not doing surgery on minors” Pediatric Trans Surgery! This is the doctor that operated on Briana the trans woman I just interviewed. pic.twitter.com/moDW2nxVsy
— Buck Angel® Transsexual (@BuckAngel) October 25, 2023
“Of the 11 surgeons who had performed vaginoplasty on a transgender female minor, 10 were in private practice. Reported ages of minors undergoing surgery ranged from 15 to ‘a day before 18’ years.”
It even sounds like they’re bragging about “having operated on the ‘youngest.'” pic.twitter.com/Jjz9GKG2YN
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) August 19, 2022
BREAKING: Danielle Smith announces new policy that bans minors 17 & under from accessing top & bottom trans surgeries. pic.twitter.com/84cPbKC2cv
— Kat Kanada
(@KatKanada_TM) January 31, 2024
Trump took executive action during the first week of his second term to prevent minors from receiving such life-altering intervention, as The Hill reported at the time:
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” Tuesday’s order states. “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
“Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,” the order states.
Here’s how he addressed the issue during his first congressional address since re-entering office:
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