A second federal judge on Friday paused President Donald Trump’s executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming ...

However “TRICARE is explicitly prohibited from covering gender-affirming surgical care for beneficiaries” outside of exceptional cases of those with pre-existing physical conditions ...

Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters is suspending hormone therapy and puberty blocker treatments used as gender-affirming care for minors ... Medicaid and TRICARE for the treatments.

The ruling came after a lawsuit was filed on behalf of families with transgender or nonbinary children who allege their health care had already been compromised by the president's order.

From 2015 to 2024, costs for gender-affirming health care, including mental health care, hormone therapy and surgery, totaled $52 million, the defense official added. That includes hormone therapy ...

Under the bill, doing so could get a doctor sued and cost them their license. This is just the latest veto fight over gender-affirming care for minors. Kansas lawmakers have attempted to ban ...

Also Friday, three Democratic states sued the Trump administration on over its order to ban federal funding for gender-affirming ... TRICARE for military families, to exclude coverage for such care.

Last month, officials from the Congressional Research Service said the Defense Department spent about $15 million to provide gender-affirming care to 1,892 active-duty troops, at a cost of about $ ...

The NIH — the nation’s premier funder of biomedical research — announced late Friday that it will immediately slash support for “indirect costs ... ban on gender-affirming care for ...