HHS Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Surgery Policies Under Fire

By Casey Harper (The Middle Sq.)

U.S. Well being and Human Companies’ transgender insurance policies towards kids are underneath scrutiny, the newest federal company to face Congressional questions over how taxpayer {dollars} could also be pushing the problem and even funding surgical procedures.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., rating member on the Subcommittee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, despatched a letter to Well being and Human Companies Secretary Xavier Becerra elevating considerations concerning the company’s work to “promote life altering adjustments to younger kids.”

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“I write to conduct oversight of the federal authorities’s use of taxpayer funds to advertise radical gender ideology and the medical transition of youngsters utilizing pharmaceutical or surgical interventions,” the letter mentioned. “The Biden Administration seems to be encouraging any little one, who doesn’t conform to perceptions of masculine or female stereotypes, to change his or her physique by means of probably irreversible medical or surgical intervention. As a substitute of funding these life-altering medication and procedures, our authorities needs to be selling insurance policies to guard weak kids – who can’t consent.”

HHS is the newest however not the one federal company to come back underneath scrutiny for its transgender insurance policies towards kids. As The Middle Sq. beforehand reported, The U.S. State Division’s Variety, Fairness, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan additionally got here underneath Congressional scrutiny for together with taxpayer-funded “gender transition care” for workers in addition to their kids.

Mace mentioned that different western nations have raised considerations concerning the transgender medication and surgical procedures, however that the Biden administration has gone all in.

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The letter explicitly requests data to what extent taxpayer {dollars} are getting used to fund these medication and surgical procedures.

“HHS, underneath the guise of ‘gender affirming care,’ now promotes medical interventions comparable to medication designed to dam puberty, opposite-sex hormones to transition kids – each of which would not have FDA approval to be used in kids’s gender care – and even surgical interventions to take away or alter the gender particular anatomy,” the letter mentioned. “HHS additionally falsely promotes a few of these interventions as ‘reversible’ or ‘partially reversible’ regardless of potential, severe long-term bodily and psychological well being dangers, issues, and remorse. The American medical establishments merely would not have sufficient information to know outcomes. Kids that suffer from psychological well being circumstances are least more likely to interact in sound determination making which is the place parental management ought to intervene.

“It’s crucial that the American individuals perceive HHS’s function and using federal taxpayer cash to advertise a radical gender ideology that’s harming kids in our nation,” the letter provides.

HHS didn’t reply to a request for remark.