Eighteen Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration policy seeking to bar transgender care for minors at federally-funded hospitals.
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The new proposal and the legal fight it has provoked is the latest front in the battle over transgender rights and medical care.
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The latest proposal by the Department of Health and Human Services focuses on hospitals’ provision of gender identity care for transgender minors. However, the administration has also taken steps to attack transgender medical care for all ages, as part of a broad campaign against transgender rights that has included barring their participation in the military, eliminating references to transgender people from government websites, and ending programs to collect data on trans related health issues.
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The states’ lawsuit centers on a proposal, announced in a December 18 declaration by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to target hospitals that provide transgender medical care, such as puberty blockers, to minors, by barring their participation in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid.