30-06-2025
- Health
- Wall Street Journal
Trump Administration Weighs Eliminating Funds for Hospitals Offering Gender Care to Minors
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is weighing cutting off funds to hospitals that it says provide gender-related treatments for children and teenagers, a move that would sharply escalate officials' scrutiny of such programs.
The potential for increased federal scrutiny on gender-related healthcare comes after a 30-day deadline passed Saturday for nine children's hospitals to respond to letters from Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator and celebrity physician known as Dr. Oz. The former heart surgeon and television host demanded data related to sex-reassignment surgeries, hormone therapy and puberty blockers.
