US EditionOregon leads lawsuit over feds efforts to ban gender-affirming care for minors
Oregon leads 18 states and D.C. in suing to block HHS rule that would cut Medicare and Medicaid funding for providers of gender-affirming care for minors.
- Late Tuesday, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Oregon, joined by 18 other Democratic states and Washington, D.C., asking to block Health and Human Services proposal.
- Last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a proposal to bar hospitals from Medicare and Medicaid if they provide puberty blockers and surgeries for transgender children and teens.
- Legal filings contend the HHS action violates the Administrative Procedure Act and Medicare and Medicaid statutes, and the Kennedy Declaration bypasses required 60-day public comment procedures.
- Hospitals risk losing Medicare and Medicaid participation if hospitals and doctors that provide gender-affirming care are excluded, while Oregon's 2023 law requires coverage through commercial insurers and the Oregon Health Plan.
- Rayfield was joined by Gov. Josh Shapiro and attorneys general from California, New York and other states, and Oregon said this is its 53rd lawsuit against the federal government this year.
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By Tierney Sneed, CNN. Eighteen Democratic-majority states and the city of Washington filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration policy that seeks to ban transgender minors from receiving care in federally funded hospitals. The new proposal and the ensuing legal battle represent the latest front in the fight for transgender rights and healthcare. The latest proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services focuses on …
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Oregon leads lawsuit over Kennedy's efforts to ban gender-affirming care for minors
Attorney General Dan Rayfield speaks to the Salem City Club at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem on Sept. 12, 2025. (Photo by Laura Tesler/Oregon Capital Chronicle)Attorney General Dan Rayfield, who led the Oregon House when it passed some of the nation’s strongest laws to protect access to transgender health care, is suing the federal government over efforts to bar gender-affirming care for minors by stripping federal funding. The lawsui…
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