The Trump administration has drawn a line in the sand, cutting off federal funding to nonprofit hospitals that provide “gender-affirming care” to minors. Under a new policy pushed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., taxpayer dollars will no longer flow to institutions accused of irreversibly harming children in the name of ideology—and profit.

The move is part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a sweeping effort to expose and eliminate fraud and abuse within America’s bloated nonprofit health care system. While Democrats and legacy media continue to paint “gender-affirming care” as compassionate, Trump officials are pulling back the curtain—and the subsidies.

For years, hospitals have exploited tax-exempt status to rake in profits while sidestepping transparency laws. These so-called charitable institutions have been accused of phantom billing, targeting vulnerable families for aggressive debt collection, and doling out CEO salaries that rival Wall Street. Now, they’re under fire for pushing dangerous transgender procedures on children without adequate mental health evaluations—or parental consent.

Cases like the Washington University Transgender Center in St. Louis and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville reveal just how far these clinics have gone. At St. Louis, a whistleblower nurse testified that minors were fast-tracked through irreversible procedures, often with incomplete assessments and little to no understanding of long-term consequences like infertility. Even when parents objected, surgeries sometimes moved forward.

At Vanderbilt, whistleblowers said staff used emotionally manipulative tactics on hesitant parents—asking if they’d prefer “a dead daughter or a living son.” And at Benioff Children’s Hospital in San Francisco, staff weren’t just advocating surgeries—they were taking their message into public schools. Internal emails revealed attempts to evaluate students for mental health issues while actively excluding parents from the process.

These aren’t outliers—they’re warning signs of a larger systemic problem. Taxpayer-funded hospitals have turned into ideological hubs, promoting radical gender policies while suppressing dissent and evading oversight. Meanwhile, the children they claim to serve are left to deal with lifelong consequences.

Secretary Kennedy’s rulemaking demands answers: How much federal money has been spent on these procedures? Which hospitals are involved? Why were taxpayers forced to fund them in the first place?

The administration’s policy shift comes as the Supreme Court affirms the right of states to restrict transgender surgeries based on age—decisions fueled in part by whistleblower testimony. Trump’s action goes further, recognizing that the moral and financial costs of enabling these procedures are too high to ignore.

Defunding these hospitals won’t fix everything—but it’s a crucial first step. If an institution can’t be trusted to protect a child, it shouldn’t be trusted with a dime of public money.

Trump’s message is clear: America’s children are not experimental subjects, and taxpayers are done funding their abuse.