Do No Harm in Medicaid Act (Gender Transition Procedures for Minors)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-08-13 — Medicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children: cross-connection with youth-gender-medical-care-funding: The CMS final rule administratively implements the same coverage bar that the Do No Harm in Medicaid Act would enact by statute for minors. (novelty: 4)
- 2025-09-18 — Chloe Cole Act: cross-connection with minor-gender-transition-care-restrictions: Both propose federal restrictions on gender-transition procedures for minors — the Chloe Cole Act via direct prohibition, the Do No Harm in Medicaid Act via funding conditions. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-12 — End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act of 2025: cross-connection with lgbtq-gender-care-funding-restrictions: S977 restricts federal taxpayer funding generally while the Do No Harm in Medicaid Act targets Medicaid coverage for minors — related mechanisms restricting public funding of gender-transition procedures. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-12-11 — Health Care Freedom for Patients Act of 2025: cross-connection with gender-transition-procedure-coverage: Both would restrict federal Medicaid payment for gender-transition procedures, though the Health Care Freedom for Patients Act extends the bar to exchange essential health benefits and applies broadly rather than only to minors. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-16 — To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage that provide benefits for sex-rejecting procedures to provide benefits for items and services to address the harms caused by sex-rejecting procedures and to restore healthy human form and functioning, to the greatest extent practicable.: cross-connection with sex-rejecting-procedure-restoration-coverage: Related legislative strand restricting or reshaping insurance treatment of gender transition procedures — Medicaid prohibition for minors vs. conditional restorative-care mandate on private/group plans. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-12-18 — Do No Harm in Medicaid Act: HR498 (119th Congress) introduced: would bar federal Medicaid payment for gender transition procedures intended to change the body of individuals under 18 to no longer correspond to biological sex, with defined exceptions for treatments addressing early (precocious) puberty, genetic or chromosomal disorders, reversal of prior transition procedures, and interventions to prevent imminent death or major bodily impairment. (novelty: 3)