Taking Health Justice into Public Policy: Proposed CMS Rules for Gender Affirming Care in Connecticut
The United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced two proposed rules, one which would bar hospitals who perform gender affirming care for minors from receiving CMS funding, and another which would ensure that Medicaid and Children’s Health funding could not be used for gender affirming care for children. As part of the notice and comment process, the public is allowed 60 days to share how these changes in policy would impact them, as well as any concerns they might have. These comments are meant to inform the government’s next steps.
Students in the Global Health Justice Partnership of the Yale Law and Public Health Schools, under the guidance of GHJP Co-director Ali Miller and GHJP Fellow Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe, submitted a comment on the health justice impact of ending gender affirming care for minors. This comment was submitted as part of a coalition of organizations led by the Out Accountability Project and Equality Connecticut. The coalition reported that they submitted more than 150 comments.
