Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield filed a suit on Tuesday seeking to challenge the Department of Health and Human Services’ actions to cut off funding for hospitals that perform transgender procedures on kids. In the suit, the Democrat officials claim that transgender procedures are “safe and effective” for young children.
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Other states that joined the suit included California, New York, Wisconsin, and over a dozen others. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro also joined the suit. The suit claimed that HHS violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Medicare and Medicaid statutes when it moved to cut funding for hospitals.
“Research and clinical data support gender-affirming care as a safe and effective treatment for gender dysphoria in adolescents. Patients receiving gender-affirming care have high rates of satisfaction and low incidence of regret compared with other medical treatments,” the suit said.
Those claims run afoul of research that shows that treatments like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, impaired sexual function, diminished bone density, altered brain development, and other irreversible physiological effects.
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Last week, HHS posted rules that will bar hospitals that offer transgender procedures to minors from participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs. The rules will also prohibit federal funding of Medicaid’s Children’s Health Insurance Program from going toward transgender procedures on those under 19 years of age.
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Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that directed his administration to take action to end all support and funding for transgender procedures on children.
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