Trump Bans Medicaid & CHIP Funding For Child Sex-Change Care
The CMS agency also says that the taxpayer funded Children's Health Insurance Program will also cease coverage of sex-change hormones and surgeries.
The Trump administration announced that Medicaid will stop funding child sex-change hormones and surgeries.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator said that the decision to implement a rule pulling the funding is “consistent with the Trump administration’s commitment to protect children from experimental and life-altering procedures that carry serious long-term health risks and lack sufficiently reliable evidence of clinical benefit.”
The CMS agency also says that the taxpayer funded Children’s Health Insurance Program will also cease coverage of sex-change hormones and surgeries. However, the rule will not affect mental health treatments for gender dysmorphia and other conditions, which will continue to be covered under Medicaid and CHIP.
