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(LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration’s director of Health and Human Services (HHS) has threatened to pull Medicare and Medicaid funding from providers who refuse to offer “transgender” mutilating surgeries and cross-sex hormones.
“We have issued guidelines that say that a provider who receives Medicare funding, Medicaid funding must be prepared to offer gender-affirming care,” said Xavier Becerra during the tenth annual Aspen Ideas: Health event, held by the Aspen Institute in late June.
“Where we have laws that require you to fulfill your obligations if you want that Medicaid dollar to come to your state, we’re gonna make sure you check the box,” Becerra continued.
While Becerra admitted the HHS is forced to “work under” circuit court decisions ruling that health care providers are not obliged to cover so-called “gender-affirming” interventions, he added, “We’re not going to stop everywhere we have the opportunity at the federal level.”
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