The Trump administration announced that it would begin to take steps aimed at ending transition-related care — or what the Department of Health and Human Services has termed "sex-rejecting procedures" — for minors nationwide.

An HHS official said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin the rulemaking process to prohibit hospitals from providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries to minors as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid, and to bar Medicaid funding from being used for such care.