Proposed HHS Rule Upends Medical Care to Appease Woke Transgenderism
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights, yesterday released a proposed regulation that will force health insurance companies to cover expensive transgender surgeries and treatments, as well as require doctors to perform these procedures, including on minors, over their sincere and consistent medical objections.
Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation and former director of HHS’ Office for Civil Rights, released the following statement Tuesday on the proposed rule:
“Our health care system should be focused on helping Americans of all ages get the best care and treatment, not advancing a narrow transgender agenda that replaces the hard facts of medicine with woke ideology. In attempting to address phantom problems, the proposal will inflict real harm on patients and providers. By imposing an unscientific gender standard of care, and requiring insurance plans to pay for it, the rule will result in sterilization, loss of sexual function, removal of healthy reproductive organs, and a plethora of unnecessary surgeries and chemical interventions with life-long consequences.”
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