Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending all federal funding for the medical mutilation of minors. However, as Trump continues to crack down on gender ideologues ensconced in our institutions, particularly those preying upon vulnerable children, resistance is rising at the state level.
There’s a backdoor effort gaining momentum in states across the country that allows taxpayer-subsidized funding for “sex change” procedures to be performed on pediatric patients.
340B, a cost-saving federal program, lets certain hospitals and clinics (“covered entities” or CEs) serving as “safety net” providers to low-income and uninsured patients obtain drugs at government-mandated discounted prices from pharmaceutical manufacturers. As the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) phrases it, the purpose of the 340B pricing program is to “stretch scarce federal resources as far as possible.”
Consequently, resulting revenue can then be used to effectively subsidize so-called “gender-affirming treatments,” such as hormone therapy and “sex reassignment” surgery.
A host of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) have advertised these subsidized procedures, even for kids, saying that 340B savings cover the cost. […]
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