{"id":192207,"date":"2025-12-19T01:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192207\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:10:08","slug":"trump-administration-attack-on-trans-health-care-what-rfk-jr-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192207\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration attack on trans health care: What RFK Jr. announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story appeared in The Logoff<\/a>, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on transgender Americans and gender-affirming health care.<\/p>\n

What happened? Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday that the federal government would take steps to block access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors, such as puberty blockers, hormones, or surgery.<\/p>\n

Kennedy\u2019s Health and Human Services Department is proposing two rules: One would target federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to minors by banning them from participating in Medicare and Medicaid. The second proposed rule would block federal dollars from being spent on gender-affirming care for minors.<\/p>\n

The administration still has to go through the rulemaking process before either measure is finalized.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the context? Attacks on trans Americans \u2014 both their inclusion in public life and their mere existence \u2014 have become a core feature of the second Trump administration. In a pair of January executive orders, President Donald Trump attacked \u201cgender ideology extremism<\/a>\u201d and referred to gender-affirming care as \u201cchemical and surgical mutilation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, the Supreme Court also allowed the Trump administration to enforce a new passport policy<\/a> requiring passports to be issued with the holder\u2019s sex at birth.<\/p>\n

Why does this matter? These proposed policy changes are diametrically opposed to professional medical advice on the subject. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other major medical associations all support access to gender-affirming care \u2014 which most often consists of puberty blockers and hormones, not surgery \u2014 for minors.<\/p>\n

And with that, it\u2019s time to log off\u2026<\/p>\n

This week, my colleague Dylan Scott introduced me (and readers of Vox\u2019s morning newsletter, Today, Explained) to this wonderful story: \u201cA Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol<\/a>.\u201d Now, dear readers, I\u2019m passing it on to you, because it\u2019s a delight. (I also highly recommend Dickens\u2019s original A Christmas Carol, if you\u2019re looking for seasonal activities.) Have a great evening and we\u2019ll see you back here tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,43,238,109942,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-192207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-the-logoff","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}