CA AG opposes Trump's trans care rules for kids

(The Center Square) - California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s proposed rules on gender-affirming care for minors. The new Medicaid and CHIP Reimbursement Rule would block both federally-funded health care programs from paying for gender-affirming care for minors. Under the new rules, funds can’t pay for that care for patients under age 18 who get Medicare and for those under 19 benefitting from the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). And according to the California Department of Justice, the new “Condition of Participation” rule would keep medical providers who offer gender-affirming care from participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Bonta’s office argued that offering medical care to cisgender individuals - those who identify as the sex they were assigned at birth - and not providing medical care to transgender individuals is discriminatory. Bonta said the Trump administration was trying to strip Americans of essential care tha