Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced six moves to crack down on the “malpractice” of “sex-rejecting procedures” Thursday.
“This is not medicine; it is malpractice,” Kennedy said of the transgender medical interventions euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.” He warned that doctors have engaged in “needless and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic Oath” to “first, do no harm.”
“Sex-rejecting procedures are neither safe nor effective treatment for children with gender dysphoria,” he declared (referring to the painful and persistent condition of identifying with the gender opposite one’s sex).
Kennedy announced six actions against these procedures during an event at the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington, D.C.
HHS has moved to establish two new rules: one preventing hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid from performing these procedures on minors; and a separate one prohibiting Medicaid dollars from funding these procedures on minors.
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