A veteran paediatric endocrinologist, Dr Quentin Van Meter, welcomed a reported federal policy shift to end Medicaid funding for gender-affirming medical treatments for minors. He argued that the change should not be characterised as denying care, while the issue remains politically and medically contested.

The Fox News article says the policy was announced on Tuesday and concerns Medicaid support for treatments described in the article as youth “sex-change treatments”. Van Meter told Fox News Digital that he considered the approach compassionate and called for further changes to transgender-related policy.