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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a slew of new proposals to prevent hospitals from performing transgender-related procedures on minors.
If implemented, the regulations would block hormone treatments, puberty blockers and surgeries that they noted would cause “irreversible damage” including infertility, impaired sexual function, diminished bone density, altered brain development, and other physiological problems.
“Under my leadership, and answering President Trump’s call to action, the federal government will do everything in its power to stop unsafe, irreversible practices that put our children at risk,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
He continued, “This Administration will protect America’s most vulnerable. Our children deserve better—and we are delivering on that promise.”
“Children deserve our protection, not experimental interventions performed on them, that carry life-altering risks with no reliable evidence of benefit,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz added.
“This proposal seeks to clarify that hospitals participating in our programs cannot conduct these unproven procedures on children. CMS will ensure that federal program standards reflect our responsibility to promote the health and safety of children.”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also issued warning letters to 12 manufacturers and retailers for their supposed illegal marketing of breast binders to children for transgender-related purposes.
According to the HHS, breast binders are Class One medical devices purposed for recovering from cancer-related mastectomies. Thus, these warning letters notified the companies of their alleged violations and how they should take corrective actions, promising import alerts, seizures and injunctions if they continue.
HHS further reversed the Biden administration’s attempt to put gender dysphoria in the definition of a disability, reassuring recipients of HHS funding that policies “preventing or limiting sex-rejecting procedures” do not violate Section 504’s requirements for disability nondiscrimination.
The move comes amid President Donald Trump’s earlier policies against transgenderism. Earlier in his second term, the president signed an executive order directing the HHS to end the practice of gender-altering surgeries for minors, JustTheNews reported.