Statement on proposed federal rules targeting gender-affirming care

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18, 2025

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Gender Justice condemned the Trump administration’s newly announced plans to restrict access to gender-affirming health care through the federal rulemaking process. These rules would cut off federal funding for trans youth care and threaten hospitals that provide it with exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid participation.

“By threatening to pull federal health care funding, the administration is attempting to force hospitals to stop providing lifesaving care and to force young people to detransition against their will,” said Megan Peterson, executive director at Gender Justice. “It’s an outrageous overreach of federal power—an attack not just on transgender people, but on everyone’s right to make private medical decisions free from political control.”

Gender Justice emphasized that this attack on health care access is part of a larger political strategy to undermine bodily autonomy and erode trust in medical science.

Under Minnesota law, gender-affirming care remains legal and protected at this time. Gender Justice vowed to continue defending providers, families, and patients and their access to proven, and often lifesaving medical care.