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下周将举行参议院听证会，审查为未成年人提供变性治疗的机构所获得的联邦资金与责任保护
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【福克斯新闻独家报道】 参议院一名资深共和党议员要求就以下问题作出解释：由纳税人支持的医疗机构是否利用联邦支持向未成年人提供性别过渡相关服务，以及当 former 患者提起诉讼时，纳税人是否可能承担相关费用。
在福克斯新闻数字频道获取的信件中，参议院卫生、教育、劳工与养老金（HELP）委员会主席、共和党议员比尔·卡西迪（路易斯安那州）致信罗德岛州两家医疗机构，要求其就有关其向19岁以下患者提供青春期阻断剂、跨性别激素、手术转诊或相关服务的报道作出解释，并敦促卫生资源和服务管理局（HRSA）说明联邦资金和责任保护是否正在为社区医疗中心免于问责提供保护伞。
卡西迪正扩大对被指控向包括未成年人在内的“弱势患者”提供青春期阻断剂、跨性别激素及相关服务的联邦支持医疗机构的审查范围，距离预定的参议院听证会仅数日之遥，该听证会将调查针对儿童的性别过渡手术以及为这些手术提供联邦资金支持的问题。
【观看：民主党人与揭露儿童医院为未成年人实施变性手术的举报人展开交锋】
“医疗服务提供者本应保护儿童健康，而非受意识形态驱动让儿童接受危险的变性手术，”卡西迪在谈及此次新调查的新闻稿中表示。“必须让这些机构承担责任，以防止对儿童造成进一步伤害。”
参议院卫生、教育、劳工与养老金委员会资深成员、共和党议员比尔·卡西迪（路易斯安那州）要求就纳税人支持的医疗机构是否利用联邦支持向未成年人提供性别过渡相关服务一事作出解释。（凯文·迪奇/盖蒂图片社）
美国卫生与公众服务部（HHS）总法律顾问迈克·斯图尔特于2月将多家联邦资助的社区医疗中心提交监察长办公室调查，原因是其涉嫌向儿童提供性别过渡服务。目前尚不清楚卫生与公众服务部监察长办公室是否已完成或公开了这些提交调查的结果。卡西迪的信件要求卫生资源和服务管理局详细说明已采取的执法行动（如有）。
据福克斯新闻数字频道审查的文件显示，其中一家社区医疗中心的文件描述了为18岁以下寻求性别确认护理的患者提供的途径，包括激素治疗，只要获得父母同意即可进行首次预约。另一家医疗中心公开宣传包括激素治疗在内的跨性别健康服务，并单独运营针对13至24岁 LGBTQ 青年和年轻人的青少年健康项目。
卡西迪的调查将对这些医疗中心的审查范围扩大到罗德岛州另外两家联邦资助的医疗服务提供者：桑德米斯特医疗中心和哈斯布罗儿童医院。
这位参议员的调查部分聚焦于一种联邦责任结构，该结构可能让政府承担为某些医疗事故索赔辩护的责任。
【医疗系统强行向儿童推行变性手术——如今正面临法律制裁】
在致卫生资源和服务管理局的信件中，卡西迪表示，出于责任目的，某些社区医疗中心及其医护人员可能被视为美国公共卫生服务局的雇员，当根据《联邦侵权索赔法》（FTCA）提出医疗事故索赔时，司法部（DOJ）将负责为案件辩护。
罗德岛州普罗维登斯市的哈斯布罗儿童医院，摄于2019年4月25日。（莱恩·特纳/《波士顿环球报》 via 盖蒂图片社）
卡西迪指出，随着全国范围内 detransition 相关诉讼数量激增，这一框架引发了新的问责问题。在他的信件中，卡西迪援引了多起诉讼，其中司法部已代表社区医疗中心或其医护人员处理涉及性别过渡相关服务的诉讼。
卡西迪在致卫生资源和服务管理局的信件中写道：“社区医疗中心从国会获得数十亿美元的纳税人资金。仅在2026财年，社区医疗中心就将获得超过63亿美元的强制性和酌情拨款。此外，卫生资源和服务管理局的医疗中心项目还获得1.2亿美元用于管理《联邦侵权索赔法》项目。”“相关行为令人担忧，暴露出现有联邦资金流监管护栏的潜在漏洞。此外，当前的责任框架带来了问责挑战。声称因性别过渡相关服务受到伤害的患者可能不得不与联邦政府的全部资源对簿公堂，而非为其治疗负责的个别医护人员，而司法部将为那些本届政府和卫生与公众服务部试图限制的执业行为辩护。”
对于桑德米斯特医疗中心，卡西迪的信件指出，该中心从联邦政府获得强制性和酌情拨款资助、医疗保险和医疗补助的增强型报销、通过340B药品定价计划获得的收入以及其他联邦支持。信件称，桑德米斯特医疗中心2024财年的拨款和捐赠收入中有66%来自卫生与公众服务部和卫生资源和服务管理局。
与此同时，卡西迪提到了罗德岛州的一起诉讼，一名 former 患者起诉桑德米斯特医疗中心的医护人员，指控其在性别过渡相关治疗中存在医疗事故、疏忽和未获得知情同意。
【全国多家医院就特朗普关于未成年人变性治疗的行政令提起诉讼】
致哈斯布罗医院的信件也提出了类似的联邦资金问题，但重点是可用于儿童医院的联邦支持，而非卫生资源和服务管理局资助的社区医疗中心。
福克斯新闻数字频道联系了桑德米斯特医疗中心和哈斯布罗医院置评，但在发稿前未收到回复。
罗德岛州普罗维登斯市的哈斯布罗儿童医院，摄于2019年4月25日。（莱恩·特纳/《波士顿环球报》 via 盖蒂图片社）
在即将举行的卫生、教育、劳工与养老金委员会听证会上，卡西迪预计将聚焦于共和党所称的儿科性别过渡手术的风险，以及联邦机构是否已采取足够措施限制纳税人向继续向未成年人提供此类服务的机构提供支持。
此次听证会也为卡西迪提供了一个公开平台，就以下问题向卫生资源和服务管理局和卫生与公众服务部施压：这些机构是否已确定哪些联邦资助的医疗机构仍在向未成年人提供性别过渡相关服务，是否有任何拨款被限制或终止，以及在涉及这些手术的案件中是否应继续适用联邦责任保护。
卫生与公众服务部已终止超过500项研究拨款，涉及价值超过3.5亿美元的性别意识形态和多元化、公平性与包容性（DEI）研究项目。（盖蒂图片社/福克斯新闻）
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卡西迪致卫生资源和服务管理局的信件要求该机构在5月28日前回复以下问题：目前是否有任何社区医疗中心正在提供性别过渡相关服务，这些服务是否会影响其获得联邦资金的资格，以及已动用多少纳税人资金解决与性别过渡相关手术相关的索赔。
福克斯新闻数字频道就卫生与公众服务部目前针对社区医疗中心向未成年人提供性别过渡服务的监察长调查的最新情况联系了该部门，但在发稿前未收到回复。
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FIRST ON FOX: A top Senate Republican is demanding answers on whether taxpayer-backed health providers used federal support to provide gender transition-related services to minors — and whether taxpayers could be footing the bill when former patients sue.
In letters obtained by Fox News Digital, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, asked two Rhode Island health care providers to explain reports saying they provided puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical referrals or related services to patients under 19 years old — and pressed the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) on whether federal funding and liability protections are shielding community health centers from accountability.
Cassidy is broadening scrutiny into federally supported health providers accused of providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and related services to “vulnerable patients,” including minors, days before a scheduled Senate hearing looking into alleged gender transition procedures for children and federally funded support for them.
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“Health care providers are supposed to protect children’s health, not subject them to dangerous sex-change procedures driven by ideology,” Cassidy said in a news release about the new probes.”These entities need to be held accountable to prevent further harm to children.”
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., ranking Member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, is demanding answers on whether taxpayer-backed health providers used federal support to provide gender transition-related services to minors(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
General counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Mike Stuart, referred several federally funded community health centers in February for an inspector general investigation for allegedly providing gender-transition services to children. It was not immediately clear whether the HHS Office of Inspector General has completed or publicly released findings from those referrals. Cassidy’s letter asks Health Resources and Services Administration to detail what enforcement actions, if any, have been taken.
Documents from one of those community health centers, according to materials reviewed by Fox News Digital, describe a pathway for patients under 18 seeking gender-affirming care, including hormones, as long as parental consent is obtained for an initial intake appointment. Another publicly advertises transgender health services, including hormone care, and separately operates an adolescent health program for LGBTQ youth and young adults ages 13 to 24.
Cassidy’s investigation expanded scrutiny of these health centers to two more federally funded healthcare providers, Thundermist Health Center and Hasbro Children’s Hospital, in Rhode Island.
The senator’s probe focuses in part on a federal liability structure that can leave the government on the hook for defending certain malpractice claims.
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In his letter to Health Resources and Services Administration, Cassidy said certain community health centers and their providers may be deemed employees of the U.S. Public Health Service for liability purposes and, when medical malpractice claims arise under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) becomes responsible for defending the cases.
Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, is pictured on April 25, 2019.(Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Cassidy argued that framework raises fresh accountability questions as detransition-related lawsuits mount nationwide. In his letters, Cassidy cited several lawsuits in which DOJ has represented community health centers or their providers in litigation involving gender transition-related services.
Community healthcare centers “receive billions of taxpayer dollars from Congress. For fiscal year (FY) 2026 alone, CHCs will receive over $6.3 billion in mandatory and discretionary funding. In addition, the HRSA Health Center Program receives $120 million to administer the FTCA Program,” Cassidy’s letter to HRSA states. “The underlying conduct is concerning and exposes potential gaps in the guardrails governing existing federal funding streams. Furthermore, the current liability framework raises accountability challenges. Patients alleging harm from gender transition-related services may be forced to litigate against the full resources of the federal government, rather than the individual providers responsible for their care, with DOJ defending providers engaged in practices that this administration and HHS have sought to restrict.”
For Thundermist, Cassidy’s letter notes that the center receives mandatory and discretionary grant funding from the federal government, enhanced reimbursement from Medicare and Medicaid, revenue through the 340B drug pricing program and other federal support. The letter says 66% of Thundermist’s fiscal year 2024 grants and contributions revenue came from HHS and the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Cassidy, meanwhile, highlighted a Rhode Island lawsuit filed by a former patient against Thundermist providers alleging medical malpractice, negligence and lack of informed consent related to gender transition.
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The Hasbro letter raises a similar federal-funding question, but focuses on federal support available to children’s hospitals rather than Health Resources and Services Administration-funded community health centers.
Fox News Digital reached out to Thundermist and Hasbro for comment, but did not hear back in time for publication.
Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, RI is pictured on April 25, 2019.(Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
At an upcoming HELP Committee hearing, Cassidy is expected to focus on what Republicans describe as the risks of pediatric gender transition procedures and whether federal agencies have done enough to restrict taxpayer support for providers that continue offering them to minors.
The hearing also gives Cassidy a public platform to pressure Health Resources and Services Administration and HHS over whether the agencies have identified which federally funded providers are still offering gender transition-related services to minors, whether any grants have been restricted or terminated, and whether federal liability protections should continue to apply in cases involving those procedures.
HHS terminated more than 500 research grants worth more than $350 million in grant funding for gender ideology and DEI research projects.(Getty Images/Fox News)
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Cassidy’s letter to Health Resources and Services Administration asked the agency to respond by May 28 to questions about whether any community health centers are currently providing gender transition-related services, whether those services could affect eligibility for federal funding, and how much taxpayer money has been used to resolve claims involving gender transition-related procedures.
Fox News Digital reached out to HHS about the status of the current inspector general investigations into community healthcare centers over providing gender-transition services to minor but did not hear back in time for publication.