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HHS condemns ‘predatory’ gender procedures for minors, citing significant harms, ‘child-mutilation’

The “malpractice” of sex-rejecting procedures permanently harms children and will no longer receive federal funding, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy announced Thursday. “So-called gender affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people,” Kennedy said at the HHS meeting. “This is not medicine. It is malpractice. We’re done with junk science driven by ideological […]

December 18, 2025

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