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- US weighs halting funds for hospitals offering gender treatment to minors, WSJ reports</p>
<p>June 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM</p>
<p>(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is weighing cutting off funds to hospitals that it says provide gender-related treatments for children and teenagers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.</p>
<p>The reported deliberations come after the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sent a letter in May to a number of hospitals performing "pediatric sex trait modification procedures," outlining what it said were concerns over quality standards and profits related to the procedures.</p>
<p>The CMS asked hospitals to respond in 30 days - a deadline which passed on Saturday.</p>
<p>In the letter, CMS Administrator Dr Mehmet Oz - the celebrity physician nominated by Trump - said the administration would not "turn a blind eye to procedures that lack a solid foundation of evidence and may result in lifelong harm".</p>
<p>Nine children's hospitals received the letters from the CMS demanding data on sex-reassignment surgeries, hormone therapy and puberty blockers, the WSJ said.</p>
<p>Some hospitals are re-examining or closing gender-related care programs, citing the CMS inquiry and potential loss of federal funds, the report added.</p>
<p>The Department of Health and Human Services and the White House did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.</p>
<p>Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Preetika Parashuraman in BengaluruEditing by Gareth Jones and Andrew Heavens)</p>
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