Source: FOX News · 2026-08-12 · Original article ↗

Trump directs CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz to end Medicaid gender transition funding

Trump ordered CMS chief Mehmet Oz to stop Medicaid from paying for gender-transition procedures on minors.

Summary

  • President Trump said he directed CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz to end Medicaid funding for gender-transition surgeries and related practices for minors.
  • In a Truth Social post he called the procedures barbaric and irreversible for children's bodies.
  • Medicaid is the joint federal-state insurer; the order targets public payment, not private speech.
  • The move follows years of fights over school secrecy rules and medicalization of minors.
  • Opponents frame access as care; the administration frames it as protecting kids from permanent harm on the taxpayer dime.

Commentary

Taxpayers are not a vending machine for experimental identity medicine on children. Ending Medicaid payouts is the floor, not the ceiling.

This is not hate. It is adult government refusing to underwrite irreversible harm while activists rewrite biology in schools and clinics.

Countries that protect kids and enforce reality last longer than countries that treat every slogan as a civil right.

Comments

Should Medicaid ever fund child transition procedures?
u/parent_lane · 5h

Public money should not buy permanent damage for confused minors. Full stop.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

Protect kids first. Adults can argue fashion. Children cannot reverse puberty blockers with a vibe.

u/campus_take · 4h

Feelings are not a clearance. Trump ordered CMS chief Mehmet Oz to stop Medicaid from paying for gender-transition procedures on minors.

u/rule_first · 3h

Care is not a blank check for irreversible surgeries on minors. Oz was told to cut the funding hose.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Japan still treats sex as biology in most public systems. Copy the sanity, not the fashion.

u/ngo_voice · 2h

International NGOs say affirmation is settled science.

u/docket_rat · 2h

Settled science does not need school secrecy and Medicaid subsidies to survive scrutiny.

u/border_dad · 90m

Same pattern as open borders: activists redefine the words, then demand the budget.

u/press_clip · 70m

Fox printed the order. Watch blue states try to route money around it.

u/night_shift · 40m

Keep the ban. Kids are not a social experiment.

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