Trump's HHS Abandons Threat to Withhold Medicare and Medicaid Funding Over Trans Care

The Department of Health and Human Services will not finalize its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationwide, NPR has learned, abandoning a threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding from providers. The reversal -- which advocacy groups attributed to public outcry -- marks a retreat from one arm of the administration's broader push across HHS, DOJ, FTC, and FDA to restrict transgender medical care.