RFK Jr. announces new rules targeting care for transgender kids

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : "Planned Parenthood health centers across the country are proud to serve patients of all gender identities and expressions," she said in a statement.
59% : Planned Parenthood provides gender-affirming care along with other reproductive health services.
59% : " During Thursday's event, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), noted that more than half of children in the United States are covered by Medicaid and CHIP.
58% : "At Planned Parenthood, we believe all people deserve access to the evidence-based health care and education they need to make informed care decisions and live safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives.
51% : Trump administration officials on Thursday announced new proposed regulations targeting gender-affirming care for youth, part of a larger push from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to restrict such care.
51% : One of the new proposed rules would ban hospitals that provide gender affirming care to youth under 18 from receiving Medicaid and Medicare funds.
48% : If approved, proposed federal regulations would dramatically impact an already challenging landscape This story was originally reported by The 19th.
48% : Another proposed rule would bar Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for youth under 18 and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from covering such care for youth under 19.
48% : (The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress included cuts to Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and local affiliates that provide abortion services in the tax-and-spending bill approved in July.
47% : He added that the Trump administration would seek to reverse Biden-era rules that included protections against discrimination from gender dysphoria under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
46% : The proposed regulations follow an executive order President Donald Trump issued in January, castigating youth gender affirming care as "chemical and surgical mutilation."
41% : Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, called the proposed rules "shameful."

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