From Breitbart: The Trump administration announced on Thursday a multi-departmental offensive to prevent hospitals from using pharmaceutical or surgical interventions to perform “sex-rejecting” procedures on children under the age of 18, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday.
The proposed rules will also work to prevent the illegal marketing of medical devices, such as breast binders, to children for the purposes of treating gender dysphoria, and to reverse the Biden administration’s attempt to include gender dysphoria within the definition of a “disability.”
According to HHS claims data, nearly 14,000 minors received sex-rejecting procedures between 2019 and 2023.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. signed a declaration Thursday stating that sex-rejecting procedures such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations “do not meet professionally recognized standards of health care,” and will consider practitioners who provide such services out of compliance with the new standards.
A press release on the HHS website reads:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a series of proposed regulatory actions to carry out President Trump’s Executive Order directing HHS to end the practice of sex-rejecting procedures on children that expose young people to irreversible harm. These procedures include pharmaceutical or surgical interventions of specified types that attempt to align a child’s physical appearance or body with an asserted identity different from their sex.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release a notice of proposed rulemaking to bar hospitals from performing sex-rejecting procedures on children under age 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Nearly all U.S. hospitals participate in Medicare and Medicaid and this action is designed to ensure that the U.S. government will not be in business with organizations that intentionally or unintentionally inflict permanent harm on children. CMS is proposing this rulemaking pursuant to its longstanding authority in sections 1861(e)(9), 1871, and 1905(a) of the Social Security Act, which authorize the agency to establish standards necessary to protect patient health and safety in Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals.
CMS will release an additional notice of proposed rulemaking to prohibit federal Medicaid funding for sex-rejecting procedures on children under age 18. The same prohibition would apply to federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funding for these procedures on individuals under age 19. Currently, 27 states do not provide Medicaid coverage of sex-rejecting procedures on children.
Sex-rejecting procedures on children — which include puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations — expose them to irreversible damage, including infertility, impaired sexual function, diminished bone density, altered brain development, and other irreversible physiological effects.
.@SecKennedy: “So-called gender-affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine, it is malpractice. We’re done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the well-being of children.” pic.twitter.com/YxggL4wZ2e
— CSPAN (@cspan) December 18, 2025
X user Moni praised the move. She wrote: “In 2018 as a transsexual, I spoke up about ending transitioning of minors, I was canceled, threatened, deleted. I left the Democrats and voted Republican mainly for the promise of halting the butchering of children. Years from now the Trump administration will be looked upon as heroes fighting for children. Thank you, @HHSGov & @SecKennedy.”
You can read about it here… https://t.co/V6YvgO5DFo pic.twitter.com/cFmHlp2cR4
— Moni 💕 (@MoniFunGirl) December 18, 2025
“There is divine worth in every person, and it shines most brightly in our children. That worth commands us to protect them, and as long as I serve as HHS secretary, this agency will do so.”
.@SecKennedy: “There is divine worth in every person, and it shines most brightly in our children. That worth commands us to protect them, and as long as I serve as HHS secretary, this agency will do so.” pic.twitter.com/SBO66Az96p
— HHS Rapid Response (@HHSResponse) December 18, 2025
Read more ⬇️https://t.co/KDSM8xrFEI
— HHS (@HHSGov) December 18, 2025
Admiral Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary for Health, also announced, “Today I signed the public health message to inform health care providers, families, and policymakers that current evidence does not support claims that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries are safe and effective treatments for pediatric gender dysphoria.”
Today I signed the public health message to inform health care providers, families, and policymakers that current evidence does not support claims that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries are safe and effective treatments for pediatric gender dysphoria. pic.twitter.com/A310aQZZsk
— ADM Brian Christine, MD (@ADM_Christine) December 18, 2025
FDA Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary (@DrMakaryFDA): “Let’s be honest, I’m going to say what you’re not supposed to say: pushing transgender ideology in children is predatory, it’s wrong, and it needs to stop.” pic.twitter.com/W9QOBYicEC
— CSPAN (@cspan) December 18, 2025
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