Florida has become the first state to sanction Medicaid providers for covering the attempted gender transitions of minors.
The state is fining five Medicaid health care insurers for violating Florida’s new rule banning taxpayer funds from going to transgender treatments, such as performing a double mastectomy or administering puberty blockers, Jason Weida, secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
In August 2022, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration had promulgated a rule that Florida Medicaid would not cover puberty blockers, hormones, sex-reassignment surgeries, or “any other procedures that alter primary or secondary sexual characteristics.”