Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces HHS crackdown on 'sex-rejecting' surgeries for minors: 'Malpractice'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : 'Tip of the spear' The conference, which came a day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to ban transgender procedures for minors and the same day another bill passed to ban Medicaid reimbursement for such interventions, took place across the street from the U.S. Capitol in the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the headquarters of HHS that was named for former President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president.
36% : "So-called 'gender-affirming care' has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people," Kennedy said during a roughly hour-long press conference that also featured remarks from HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya and Chloe Cole, a prominent detransitioner who has testified about her story before on Capitol Hill.
34% : He urged doctors to use "the least invasive possible" approaches to treating gender dysphoria, going on to add that the HHS' proposed regulations will save the government hundreds of millions over the next decade by preventing a lucrative "grotesque laundry list" of procedures to remove healthy reproductive organs and fashion fake ones.
29% : Kennedy said the proposed HHS rules, which are subject to a 60-day comment period, would bar hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid from performing transgender procedures on children, citing risks of irreversible harm such as infertility, impaired sexual function, bone density loss and altered brain development.
22% : Dr. Mehmet Oz, who serves as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, condemned transgender ideology as a "dishonest narrative" that "treats children like lab mice."

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