‘Irreversible Harm’: CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz Tells State Medicaid Directors No Funding for Gender Reassignment Surgeries, Hormone Treatments for Minors

Breitbart ^ | 11 Apr 2025 | Sean Moran

[SoConPubbie]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz told state Medicaid directors Friday there will be no Medicaid funding for “gender reassignment” surgeries or hormone treatments for minors.

“As a doctor and now CMS Administrator, my top priority is protecting children and upholding the law. Medicaid dollars are not to be used for gender reassignment surgeries or hormone treatments in minors – procedures that can cause permanent, irreversible harm, including sterilization,” Oz said in a written statement obtained by Breitbart News.

“We have a duty to ensure medical care is lawful, necessary, and truly in the best interest of patients. CMS will not support services that violate this standard or place vulnerable children at risk. It is a CMS responsibility to steward Medicaid dollars and ensure resources focus on protecting our most vulnerable,” he continued.

Oz wrote to state Medicaid directors to ensure that state Medicaid agencies are “aware of growing evidence regarding certain procedures offered to children, and to remind states of their responsibility to ensure that Medicaid payments are consistent with quality of care and that covered services are provided in a manner consistent with the best interest of recipients.”

The recently confirmed administrator to CMS noted that medical interventions to cure gender dysphoria — including puberty blockers, surgeries to transform one’s physical appearance, surgeries to remove an individual’s sexual organs, and sex hormones to align one’s appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex –have “proliferated.”

The CMS administrator noted that there is dearth of evidence supporting these controversial medical procedures to treat gender dysphoria for minors, and noted that these interventions can “cause long-term and irreparable harm”:

[gildafarrell]

Kudos, Dr. Oz.

[lee martell]

I would like to have Dr. Oz in an official position working with this administration. RFK jr. has a speech impediment, a condition that leaves his spoken communication sounding like a person with severe Parkinson’s. Maybe Oz could handle being the spokesman for some of RFK Jr’s ideas, if Kennedy is willing to share the limelight.

[Persevero]

Praise God. Many children may be spared this heinous sexual asssult.

[Gene Eric]

RFK Jr’s manner of speech is perfectly okay — and that shouldn’t be the reason to elevate Oz.

[TigersEye]

Congress should make it a Federal felony for doctors to Rx those drugs or do those surgeries on minors.

Makes it a little harder to overturn than a mere agency policy.

[Greg123456]

A few yrs ago he supported that garbage

[Celtic Conservative]

“RFK jr. has a speech impediment, a condition that leaves his spoken communication sounding like a person with severe Parkinson’s...”

No, all Kennedys talk like that.

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[GOPJ]

Dr. Oz says 'no' to the sexual mutilation of children? Thank YOU Dr. Oz

[ViLaLuz]

He flip flopped, but at least now he’s on the right side.

[13Sisters76]

I wonder if these “doctors” doing this reprehensible “care” are aware of how history has treated lobotomies and the doctors who did them?
They thought THAT was a good idea too...