{"id":370263,"date":"2025-12-25T04:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370263\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T04:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:37:14","slug":"democratic-led-states-sue-hhs-over-proposal-targeting-hospitals-that-offer-transgender-care-to-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370263\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic-led states sue HHS over proposal targeting hospitals that offer transgender care to minors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Eighteen Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit<\/a> Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration policy seeking to bar transgender care for minors at federally-funded hospitals.\n <\/p>\n

\n The new proposal and the legal fight it has provoked is the latest front in the battle over transgender rights and medical care.\n <\/p>\n

\n The latest proposal by the Department of Health and Human Services focuses on hospitals\u2019 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.\n <\/p>\n

\n The states\u2019 lawsuit centers on a proposal<\/a>, 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.\n <\/p>\n

\n Kennedy claimed that the procedures failed to \u201cmeet professionally recognized standards of care.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The challengers allege that this policy would violate the Administrative Procedure Act, which puts guardrails on how executive branch agencies implement policies. The states claim the policy unlawfully interferes with their administration of Medicaid and it impedes on states\u2019 authority to regulate medical practices within their borders.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHealth care decisions should be made by patients, families, and their providers \u2013 not by politicians making false claims about the safety of care,\u201d Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.\n <\/p>\n

\n The other states bringing the lawsuit are Oregon, Washington, New York, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighteen Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration policy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-370263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}