HHS announced regulatory proposals to cut Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to people under 19, following House votes that advanced a federal ban on care for minors.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said such procedures "are not medicine" and Mehmet Oz called treatments "a Band-Aid on a much deeper pathology," while the package would also seek to remove gender dysphoria from the federal disability definition and prompt FDA warnings about chest binders.Major medical groups and civil-rights organizations warned of legal challenges and harms to transgender youth, supporters including Chloe Cole praised the action, and observers said the rules will face public comment, lawsuits and an uncertain path in the Senate.