DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden-Harris administration opened the door for a massive increase of taxpayer-funded transgender interventions, including child sex-change surgeries, and the Daily Caller News Foundation has obtained enough data to give a partial estimate of the cost.
From January 2018 to September 2023, 16 states spent more than $165 million funding “gender transition services”—including puberty blockers, hormones, and sex-change surgeries—with more than $45 million spent on interventions for children 17 and younger, according to data obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation through a series of public record requests.
The DCNF asked states to provide reimbursement data for gender transition services covered through state insurance and medical assistance programs, such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which is funded through…
