WASHINGTON—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is reminding hospital providers that they have an obligation to protect children from irreversible transgender procedures, the agency said in a press release on Wednesday.
Following on the heels of President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at protecting children from such procedures, CMS is alerting hospital providers of “serious quality and safety concerns associated with harmful, medical interventions for gender dysphoria.”
CMS, which is a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, also said that it might start taking steps to “align its policies and regulations with medical evidence and to safeguard children from often irreversible experiments.”
“CMS will continue to follow any applicable substantive and procedural requirements in taking any future action,” the release added.
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