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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Widespread and systematic fraud’: How hospitals hid sex-rejecting procedures on minors – inside the HHS report 

Federal funding for sex-rejecting procedures for minors through Medicaid and the state Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) officially ended Tuesday, fulfilling President Donald Trump’s executive order against so-called gender-affirming care, issued eight days into his second term. The news follows an August Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report, Wolves in White Coats: How […]

By Michaela Estruth
October 13, 2026

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