“Today, at my direction, Dr Mehemet Oz announced that Medicaid will NO LONGER fund gender transition surgeries and hormones for minors. We are not going to pay for our innocent children to undergo these barbaric surgeries and practices, which result in unthinkable and irreversible harm to their young bodies. Thanks to our strong position and pressure on this issue over the past year and a half, dozens of US hospitals have already ended this so-called ‘gender-affirming care,’ and we expect many more to follow. Just think about all of the young, innocent, and perhaps confused children who will be spared! While the Dumocrat Party wants your kids to be able to chop off their reproductive organs before they are old enough to vote, President Donald J Trump (ME!) and the Republican Party say that is ABSURD, and we will protect America’s children.”
“Please remember this when you are casting your vote in the Midterm Elections in November,” wrote convicted felon President Trump on Truth Social Tuesday, finally taking action on policy for which untold dozens of Americans will hinge their vote upon this November, action that he was supposed to have taken on day one more than 18 months ago.Or already took and just forgot he did.
Plus why’s it only for minors? Adults can still get transition surgery and hormone therapy via Medicaid, so all these kids have to do is wait until they turn 18 to get their transitions paid for? Doesn’t seem like all that effective of a crackdown on “they/them” Americans were promised.
Now the “meaningless bullshit” in the headline is not to be dismissive of the practical consequences this may have for minors who are mid-transition and will suffer adversely (if the order survives court challenges). It’s that the desperation that was already unsubtle by the fact that Trump even posted this at all was just made fully transparent with the “remember this in November” part.