Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas is investigating how much taxpayer money is spent on sex change treatments for minors.

Crenshaw wrote a letter to the Congressional Budget Office on Thursday asking for a review of federal programs that allocate funds toward sex-change treatments and operations from therapy to surgery.

“Cosmetic self-harm for minors is not medicine. Children’s hospitals offering gender-transition procedures should be stripped of their federal funding. To eliminate support, we must first expose the full extent of government complicity in this ideological fantasy, paving the way to cut it during budget reconciliation next Congress.” Crenshaw said in a statement.

The congressman’s letter requested data on the “total aggregate dollar amount spent to fund ‘gender transition procedures’ during Fiscal Years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, including a breakdown by year and by each federal program (e.g. Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program) that distributed funds to medical institutions performing ‘gender transition procedures’ on minors during Fiscal Years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.”

He also asked for a breakdown of the growth of the funding directed toward sex change treatments.

Last year, Crenshaw introduced legislation to block taxpayer funds from going to hospitals and treatment centers that offer sex-change treatments for minors. He added the provision to a reauthorization of the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Payment Program. Crenshaw’s legislation has yet to receive a vote on the House floor.

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“‘Gender affirming care’ for minors is indistinguishable from child abuse, and it is quickly becoming the human rights issue of our time. There is no other human rights atrocity in America that is so quickly gaining momentum and validation within the very institutions that should know better,” Crenshaw said in a statement to The Daily Wire at the time.

“One of these institutions is children’s hospitals. In a place where ‘do no harm’ is the ultimate guiding principle, there is no excuse to ever perform treatments that permanently alter a child’s physiology,” he continued. “From now on, we will not allow a dime of taxpayer funding to go toward children’s hospitals that cater to the harmful pseudoscience that is ‘gender affirming care.’”