RFK Jr is putting a hard line down and daring the medical establishment to push back. Words like malpractice and junk science are meant to make anyone who questions him pause.
🚨 BREAKING: RFK Jr announced he’s signed a directive BANNING transgender surgeries for minors nationwide
“So-called gender-affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine—it is MALPRACTICE”
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— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 18, 2025
The Trump administration is moving to make it harder for hospitals to provide gender-affirming care for children, to stop medical device manufacturers from marketing breast binders to children, and to stop gender dysphoria from being protected under federal disability law.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a press conference on Thursday, Dec. 18, signed a declaration that says “sex-rejecting procedures are neither safe nor effective treatment for children with gender dysphoria.”
Kennedy said that the Department of Health and Human Services is starting an administrative process to prohibit hospitals that provide children with “sex-rejecting procedures” from participating in Medicare and Medicaid — a move that would affect virtually every hospital in the United States.
Kennedy also said the administration will attempt to stop Medicare from funding “sex-rejecting procedures,” a move that could have ripple effects nationwide because commercial insurance companies generally choose what to reimburse based on Medicare’s policies.