Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new regulations on Thursday that restrict the ability for transgender minors to access gender-affirming health care.
The regulations work to "carry out President Trump's executive order directing HHS to end the practice of sex-rejecting procedures on children that expose young people to irreversible harm, a press release said.
The new rules will ban hospitals from "performing sex-rejecting procedures on children under age 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs."
"These actions will ensure that the federal government in no way funds directly gender transition procedures on minors and also does not fund facilities that perform these procedures," a department official told reporters Thursday.
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