"And where transgender advocates and healthcare providers view puberty blockers, hormones and (in rare cases) surgical interventions as suicide prevention measures, the health secretary claimed that these procedures will do the opposite: rob children of their futures. Under his proposals, hospitals that provide transgender care to minors would lose federal funding, including Medicaid. In language as in policy, Kennedy is negating everything, and everyone, trans."
"Not content to harm transgender youth by denying medical care, however, the Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on nonmedical products like stretchy garments and silicon prostheses. In attempting to regulate away commerce in gender-affirming garments and prostheses, it is attempting to regulate away transgender people. On Wednesday, the FDA sent warning letters to a dozen purveyors of chest binders, underwear for tucking fleshly genitals or packing artificial ones, and fake breasts and penises."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced efforts to block medical treatments for transgender youth, labeling such care 'sex-rejecting procedures' and proposing that hospitals lose federal funding, including Medicaid, for providing it. Transgender advocates and healthcare providers view puberty blockers, hormones and surgical interventions as suicide-prevention measures, while the proposals portray those procedures as robbing children of futures. The Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to purveyors of chest binders, underwear for tucking or packing, and prosthetic breasts and penises, citing failures to register those products as medical devices. The letters warn of enforcement actions including seizure and injunction if businesses do not comply.
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