Gender-Affirming Care 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 medicaid-chip-sex-rejecting-procedures-minors: CMS final rule implements at the federal payment level the coverage restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors. (novelty: 4)
- 2025-09-18 — Chloe Cole Act: Senate companion Chloe Cole Act (S2907, 119th Congress) introduced and referred to the HELP Committee, paralleling House version HR7651 with the same goal of restricting gender-transition medical interventions for minors. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-12 — End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act of 2025: cross-connection with gender-affirming-care-federal-funding: A federal funding ban on gender-related medical interventions would directly limit access to gender-affirming care for minors covered by federally funded programs. (novelty: 2)
- 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: Restorative-care coverage mandate would create insurance-side obligations paralleling substantive restrictions on gender-affirming care. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-16 — A bill 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 possible.: cross-connection with sex-rejecting-procedure-restorative-care-coverage: Restorative/detransition coverage mandate parallels ongoing federal policy debates over gender-affirming care, particularly for minors. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-10 — World Professional Association for Transgender Health v. Federal Trade Commission: cross-connection with transgender-healthcare-regulation: WPATH v. FTC litigation over transgender healthcare practices intersects with federal debates on gender-affirming care standards, particularly for minors, where WPATH’s Standards of Care are frequently cited. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-12-18 — Do No Harm in Medicaid Act: cross-connection with medicaid: HR498 would use Medicaid payment restrictions as the federal lever to limit gender-affirming care for minors, linking Medicaid financing policy to the broader minor gender-affirming care coverage debate. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-02-23 — Chloe Cole Act of 2026: Chloe Cole Act of 2026 (HR7651, 119th Congress) introduced and referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary; bill is named after a prominent detransitioner and targets pediatric gender-related medical interventions. (novelty: 2)