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The Trump administration will no longer fund gender transition surgeries using Medicaid, President Don ald Trump said Tuesday.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said he ordered Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to stop using the joint federal and state public health insurance program to fund such procedures.
Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Mehmet Oz speaks during a press briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House, in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images) (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)
“We are not going to pay for our innocent children to undergo these barbaric surgeries and practices, which result in unthinkable and irreversible harm to their young bodies,” Trump wrote.
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