President Donald Trump's sweeping fiscal and spending
budget, affectionately known as "a big, beautiful bill," eliminates
Medicaid funding for transgender surgeries. This measure will affect a large
portion of these procedures if passed in the Senate.
The reconciliation budget, narrowly passed in the House of
Representatives early Thursday morning by a vote of 215 to 214 and 1 to 1,
would have initially prohibited Medicaid from covering "gender transition
procedures" for children, until an amendment, published Wednesday night,
removed the words "minors" and "under 18" from that
section, The Independent reported.
Gender transition treatments that would no longer be covered
include puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries, Breitbart explained.