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Trump Admin Takes Step on Rule Barring Federal Funds from Hospitals That Transition Kids

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

When the Trump administration’s rule prohibiting federally funded hospitals from performing child transgender procedures was found missing from the regulatory agenda, conservatives worried the president was backtracking on a key promise.

The Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions for 2026 was initially posted without the rule included, but it was added to the agenda on Wednesday afternoon, the Daily Signal has learned. The inclusion of the rule signals that the administration stands by its efforts to prohibit taxpayer funding of child sex changes. 

In December, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued two draft notices of proposed rulemaking that work together to prevent taxpayers from funding transgender procedures at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified hospitals.

Several hospitals, including the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, have closed their child sex change units as a result of the Trump administration’s pressure. More than 40 pediatric gender clinics in blue states stopped or paused offering transgender procedures and services between January 2025 and 2026, according to STAT.

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