WASHINGTON, August 12. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump has stated that gender transition surgeries in the United States will no longer be covered under the federal Medicaid insurance program.

As the US president announced on his Truth Social network on Tuesday, according to his directive to the relevant department, "Medicaid will no longer fund gender transition surgeries and hormones for minors." "We are not going to pay for our innocent children to undergo these barbaric surgeries and practices, which result in unthinkable and irreversible harm to their young bodies," the US leader added.

"Thanks to our strong position and pressure on this issue over the past year and a half, dozens of US hospitals have already ended this so-called 'gender-affirming care,' and we expect many more to follow," Trump emphasized.