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Uncle Joe

(64,238 posts) Fri Dec 19, 2025, 11:31 AM Dec 19

Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare

The Trump administration on Thursday announced new measures to target hospitals and doctors providing care to trans youth. Under the new rules unveiled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads Medicaid and Medicare, the government would strip federal funding for any hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. The new rules were announced a day after the House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill that aims to criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18 and subject providers to hefty fines and prison time.

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Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare (Original Post) Uncle Joe Dec 19 OP

Got me looking, here's an article from KFF noting 27 states already have laws against youth GAC. I did not know that. Silent Type Dec 19 #1

Silent Type

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1. Got me looking, here's an article from KFF noting 27 states already have laws against youth GAC. I did not know that.

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Fri Dec 19, 2025, 02:05 PM

Dec 19

https://www.kff.org/lgbtq/gender-affirming-care-policy-tracker/

27 states have enacted laws/ policies limiting youth access to GAC

50% of trans youth (ages 13-17) live in a state that has enacted a law/policy limiting access to GAC

17 states are facing lawsuits challenging their laws/policies limiting youth access to GAC

24 states impose professional or legal penalties on health care practitioners providing GAC

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