Medicaid will stop funding child sex-change surgeries and hormones, a key Trump administration agency announced Tuesday.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), told Fox News Digital that the resolution to enforce a rule pulling the funding is “consistent with [the Trump administration’s] commitment to protect children from experimental and life-altering sex-rejecting procedures, that carry serious long-term health risks and lack sufficiently reliable evidence of clinical benefit.”
According to Fox News, CMS is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The taxpayer-funded Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will also stop coverage of sex-change hormones and surgeries.
“Children deserve our protection, not experimental interventions that pose serious risks and convey no proven benefits,” Oz said. “By cutting off federal funds for these sex-rejecting procedures, we’re following the science, saving taxpayer dollars, and, most importantly, protecting children from potentially irreversible harm so they can truly flourish.”
When it comes to our children, their long-term health must come first.
— Dr. Oz CMS (@DrOzCMS) August 11, 2026
Following evidence and HHS review, CMS has finalized a rule ending federal Medicaid and CHIP funding for sex-rejecting procedures for minors.
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Particularly, Oz said, the “sex-rejecting” treatments that will no longer be covered include cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers and sex-change surgical operations.
Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., HHS reviewed national and international research on sex-change procedures in minors, which in the end informed CMS’ decision to reverse federal taxpayer-funded procedures.
“Today, we are ending federal taxpayer funding for sex-rejecting procedures on children,” Secretary Kennedy said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “These interventions carry serious risks and can cause irreversible harm. The federal government will no longer use Medicaid and CHIP dollars to fund procedures that fail to meet the evidentiary standard our children deserve.”
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