The Trump administration is prohibiting Medicaid funds from being used for gender-transition surgeries for minors, according to an announcement made by President Donald Trump on his Truth Social page Tuesday evening.
Trump stated that he directed Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to implement the new policy. "We are not going to pay four our innocent children to undergo these barbaric surgeries and practices, which result in unthinkable and irreversible harm to their young bodies," Trump posted.
He noted that a number of hospitals across the United States have already stopped performing these procedures. "Just think about all of the young, innocent and perhaps confused children who will be spared," the president continued, hailing the new policy.
Trump also criticized Democrats in his statement. "While the Dumocrat Party wants your kids to be able to chop off their reproductive organs before they are old enough to vote, President Donald J Trump (ME!) and the Republican Party say that is ABSURD and we will protect America's children," he wrote. He urged voters to remember this issue when casting their ballots in the upcoming midterm elections in November.
This is a developing story and will be updated.