Xavier Becerra
HHS secretary signals sex-change surgeries for minors should be covered by taxpayers: Report
by Abigail Adcox, Healthcare Reporter |
November 30, 2022 06:53 PM
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra indicated that the Biden administration supports using taxpayer dollars to cover treatments, such as gender transition surgery, for minors that medical experts have determined are "medically necessary."
Becerra signaled that the administration supports coverage for transition-related treatments for both adults and children in written testimony submitted to the House Committee on Education and Labor on Tuesday obtained by the Daily Caller.
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"The Biden-Harris Administration supports the upcoming release of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care Version 8 and believes that all children and adults should be afforded life-saving, medically necessary care. Payers, both public and private, should cover treatments which medical experts have determined to be medically necessary,” Becerra wrote in response to a series of questions submitted by Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), including whether he believed "taxpayers should pay for chemical castration and sex-change operations."
Becerra did not specify what type of "necessary care" the administration supports coverage for in his response.
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