If new HHS regs are approved, hospitals that mutilate children will lose federal funding

 

By Andrea Widburg

One of President Trump’s first executive orders when he re-entered office was to state that he would take all steps possible to stop hospitals from mutilating children through surgeries and chemicals. Of course, these institutions don’t call it child mutilation—they call it “gender-affirming care”—but it amounts to the same thing, and now, at long last, it’s possible that this reign of terror will end. That’s thanks to HHS’s new regulatory proposals that will stop federal funds from flowing to hospitals that provide this Orwellian “care” to children under 18.

We Normals know that there is no such thing as “gender-affirming care” because the whole concept is imaginary. One can be a feminine boy or a masculine girl, but changing one’s sex is impossible.

When hospitals cut off girls’ breasts or boys’ penises and testicles, fashion globs of skin into fake “penises” for girls, carve holes into boys’ bodies to create a “vagina,” or dump testosterone or estrogen into bodies that were never meant to handle those hormones, they are committing the worst sort of violence against children. Moreover, these are the same children who, in most states, can’t get piercings or tattoos because society recognizes that they’re too mentally immature to understand the full ramifications of permanent body alterations.

Additionally, we have a growing body of evidence showing just what those body mutilating procedures are doing to people, whether young or old. Upper body surgery (breast removal or augmentation, facial reshaping, etc.) is cosmetic, although women who remove their healthy breasts will obviously never nurse a child.

However, most lower-body surgery (aka “bottom surgery”) never heals properly. Constantly open wounds, infections, fecal and urinary incontinence, and painful fake “vagina” stretching are just some of the physical problems. In addition, almost all procedures result in the loss of normal sexual function and feeling. None of these are things a child, even an older teen, can fully comprehend.

Chemical mutilation is no better. Male and female bodies are not meant to have hormones that oppose their fundamental biology. Cancer, bone problems, heart problems, sexual dysfunction, emotional manipulation...all of these are associated with wrong-sex hormones. And while some issues go away if the person stops the hormones, other changes are permanent.

Doing these procedures to a child is the opposite of the Hippocratic oath to “first do no harm.” Nevertheless, in hospitals across America, while some are true believers when it comes to gender madness, others are more likely to be true believers in profitable surgeries that come with equally profitable lifelong complications.

The latter group—the ones who are in it for the money—are in for an unpleasant surprise if proposed new HHS regulations go into effect. If hospitals insist on performing these procedures, they will lose Medicaid and Medicare funding. Nowadays, no hospital can survive without that money.

From today’s HHS press release:

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release a notice of proposed rulemaking to bar hospitals from performing sex-rejecting procedures on children under age 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Nearly all U.S. hospitals participate in Medicare and Medicaid and this action is designed to ensure that the U.S. government will not be in business with organizations that intentionally or unintentionally inflict permanent harm on children. CMS is proposing this rulemaking pursuant to its longstanding authority in sections 1861(e)(9), 1871, and 1905(a) of the Social Security Act, which authorize the agency to establish standards necessary to protect patient health and safety in Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals.

CMS will release an additional notice of proposed rulemaking to prohibit federal Medicaid funding for sex-rejecting procedures on children under age 18. The same prohibition would apply to federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funding for these procedures on individuals under age 19. Currently, 27 states do not provide Medicaid coverage of sex-rejecting procedures on children.

As a culture, we recoil in revulsion at the thought of the ancient Chinese practice of foot-binding or the modern Muslim practice of female genital mutilation. Therefore, it’s shocking and immoral that we have allowed even more heinous mutilation to take place in America and, worse, forced taxpayers to fund it. What HHS is proposing is wonderful, and I sincerely hope the regulations survive, not only the proposal period but also the inevitable lawsuits

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/if_new_hhs_regs_are_approved_hospitals_that_mutilate_children_will_lose_federal_funding.html