Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced groundbreaking measures that will effectively halt the dangerous practice of so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors across the United States.
Kennedy laid out a series of executive actions and proposed rules designed to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of vulnerable young people confused about their gender identity.
RFK Jr. announced at the HHS press conference:
“Doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect children. Yet doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic oaths by endangering the very lives they are sworn to safeguard.
The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children who suffer from gender dysphoria.
They betrayed the estimated 300,000 American youth, ages 13 to 17, conditioned to believe that sex can be changed. They betrayed their Hippocratic oath to do no harm.
So-called “gender-affirming care” has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine; it is malpractice. We’re done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the well-being of children.
A peer-reviewed report published by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health last month confirms that sex-rejecting procedures impose medical dangers and lasting harm on children who receive these interventions.
So today, we are taking six decisive actions, guided by gold-standard science and the week-one executive order from President Trump, to protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation.
This morning, I signed a declaration: Sex-rejecting procedures are neither safe nor effective treatments for children with gender dysphoria.”
WATCH:
BREAKING: RFK Jr announced he’s signed a directive BANNING transgender surgeries for minors nationwide
“So-called gender-affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine—it is MALPRACTICE”
“We’re DONE… pic.twitter.com/IosfZ0qVMR
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 18, 2025
The cornerstone of the announcement includes two powerful proposed rules:
Prohibiting federal Medicaid reimbursement for any gender-affirming procedures—such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries—provided to individuals under 18.
Barring all Medicare and Medicaid funding to any hospital that offers pediatric gender-affirming care, ensuring that facilities reliant on federal dollars prioritize healing over harm.
These measures build on President Trump’s Day One executive order rejecting federal support for child “transitions” and come on the heels of strong congressional action, including the House passage of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill criminalizing such procedures for minors and Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s legislation blocking Medicaid coverage.
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