WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, highlighted multiple U.S. hospital systems and health providers that have stopped providing dangerous, life-altering gender transition services to children. This is a direct result of President Trump and Cassidy’s efforts to hold health care entities accountable for the gender mutilation of children.
“President Trump is delivering on his promise to protect children from dangerous gender transitions,” said Dr. Cassidy. “As chair of the HELP Committee, I will continue to work with the President to stop the chemical and surgical mutilation of our children.”
Earlier this year, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) directing federal agencies to ensure children are not subjected to chemical and surgical castration. Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in performing gender transition procedures on children. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule in June to prohibit health insurance issuers subject to Essential Health Benefit (EHB) requirements from providing coverage for “sex trait modification procedures.”
As chair of the HELP Committee, Cassidy is leading Senate Republicans in ensuring health care entities, including providers and insurers, comply with the President’s EO to protect children from irreversible gender transition procedures.
Cassidy is also investigating the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and other medical organizations for promoting gender transition procedures for children without reliable scientific data. WPATH's standards of care influence providers and insurance companies that reference these guidelines when providing care and coverage for gender procedures. The Department of Health and Human Services has instructed providers not to follow WPATH’s dangerous treatment guidelines, highlighting the organization’s role in advancing standards based on flawed and inaccurate science.
Additionally, Cassidy is leading the No Subsidies for Gender Transition Procedures Act, which prohibits taxpayer funded transition procedures under Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act. The bill also prohibits the use of medical expense tax deduction for gender transition procedures.
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