1. Medidas de la administración federal y recortes de fondos.
El Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS), bajo la dirección de Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ha propuesto regulaciones para retirar el financiamiento de Medicaid y Medicare a hospitales que ofrezcan cuidados de transición a menores.
- If a hospital provides any gender affirming medical care, it will lose all medicaid medicare funding. This is using a nuke to swat a mosquito.
- Hhs moves to slash funding and access to care for transgender minors the trump administration announced thursday that it would begin to take steps aimed at ending transition-related care.
- Rfk jr. Could defund your hospital if he doesnt get his way on trans health care the proposed regulations on gender-affirming care for minors are not legally binding and are set to be challenged in court.
2. Desafíos legales y resistencia de los estados.
Una coalición de 19 estados y el Distrito de Columbia ha iniciado acciones legales contra el HHS, argumentando que las nuevas reglas interfieren con las leyes estatales y los derechos de salud.
- 19 states and d.c. Sue hhs over move to dramatically limit gender transition care new federal rules, if finalized, would bar medical professionals who provide gender transition care to transgender youth from federal health care programs.
- Illinois joins lawsuit against white houses attempted national ban on youth gender-affirming care.
- Massachusetts is one of 19 states suing to stop the trump administration from limiting health care for transgender adolescents.
3. Impacto en la salud mental y bienestar de los jóvenes.
Defensores de derechos humanos y profesionales de la salud advierten que la eliminación de estos servicios aumentará las tasas de depresión y suicidio entre la juventud trans.
- Gender-affirming health care is life-saving, and the ongoing fixation on trans kids is cruel and harmful.
- Study links anti-trans laws to an increase in trans teen suicide attempts shots - health news.
- Trans kids and young people are already some of the most at-risk members of our community, in terms of mental health, physical safety, and housing security.
4. Conflicto entre el consenso médico y la retórica política.
Existe una brecha profunda entre las principales asociaciones médicas, que respaldan el cuidado basado en evidencia, y la nueva administración, que califica estos procedimientos como mala praxis.
- Every major medical association and leading world health authority supports health care for transgender people and youth.
- This is not medicine it is malpractice health secretary robert f. Kennedy jr on trans gender-affirming care to children.
- The trump administrations attacks on trans health care are just as much a departure from science as the ones on vaccines and climate science.
5. Criminalización y nuevas restricciones legislativas.
El Congreso ha avanzado en proyectos de ley, como la H.R. 3492, que buscan criminalizar a los proveedores de salud y prohibir la cobertura de seguros para tratamientos trans.
- H.r. 3492 would criminalize health care providers who offer gender-affirming care to trans youth, threatening doctors, families, and young people with punishment.
- The bill would imprison health-care providers, including doctors pharmacists, for as long as 10 years if convicted of providing gender-affirming care to transgender kids.
- H.r. 498 would block low-income trans youth from accessing gender-affirming care through medicaid, deepening existing health inequities.