A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue to provide accommodations and care for transgender inmates in federal prisons, saying officials had not provided a serious explanation for why medical treatment for gender dysphoria should be handled differently than other cases.
The order Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, blocks officials from carrying out President Donald Trump’s executive order, which required Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials to stop providing medical procedures related to sex changes.
And we keep talking a debt while Medicaid is completely out of control .
Presently Medicaid pays for sex change operations and no one seems to care . Medicaid is going to cost taxpayers about 10 TRILLION dollars over the next 10 years . Why aren’t these RINO’s demanding cut to that beast ?
Using data from Kythera Labs, a healthcare data technology company, we examined 2.2 billion medical claims in 2023 from 206 million patients. On average, patients seeking gender-affirming care incurred 87% more claims than others. Over 22% of these patients were minors, who had 2.7 times more claims per person than other minors.
As our study shows, commercial health plans, Medicare, and Medicaid programs paid for gender-affirming care. Depending on benefit design, patients and their families may also have paid out-of-pocket for this care.
Medicaid benefits are subject to Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the law’s major non-discrimination provisions, which prohibit discrimination based on sex. The Biden Administration recently proposed a new rule on Section 1557 that explicitly states that it interprets, and will enforce, sex-based protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The administration had already asserted this position in guidance stating that under 1557 protections, “categorically refusing to provide treatment to an individual based on their gender identity is prohibited discrimination” and it returns to a position more closely aligned to that under the Obama administration but walked back under the Trump administration.
So why are so many in the GOP jioning the evil dems stating NO CUTS TO MEDICAID ?