Trump Admin Gives Final Warning To Hospitals Flouting Trump’s Child Sex-Change Ban

President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing federal funding cuts to hospitals that provide sex change treatments to minors in spite of the administration’s orders.

Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, gave nine children’s hospitals a 30-day deadline beginning May 28 to confirm they are not providing sex changes to children. With several hospitals now failing to provide data in response, CMS is considering revoking federal funding for noncompliance, the Wall Street Journal reported.

“President Trump has been clear: America will protect kids from life-altering and experimental procedures,” Oz said, according to WSJ. “CMS has warned hospitals and state Medicaid programs about these dangers—and is taking regulatory enforcement actions.”

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qualify hospitals from Medicaid entirely if they continue providing sex change operations for children, officials told WSJ. Many of the hospitals are reliant on federal funding to function.

The Trump administration has already successfully pressured some youth gender clinics into closing, including one of the largest in the nation, the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh also apparently stated it would no longer offer puberty blockers following CMS’s letter, according to WSJ.