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Ben Acosta: Wannabe Author
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Author of @SpadesFiction.com
He/Him
https://www.spadesfiction.com
Ain't you all?
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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my disdain for the genocide that israel is committing is not racism.
December 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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At least you found a way to make a horrifying terrorist attack about you though.
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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They call gender-affirming care "sex-rejecting procedures."
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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But note that the definition is not limited to surgeries (which is what "procedures" might suggest). It includes puberty blockers and hormone treatment as well.
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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But of course the same hormones (or even surgery) are allowed for kids if the purpose is to align their sex with the sex assigned at birth.
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I am not aware of another Medicare/Medicaid condition of participation that bars a provider from using clinical judgment to provide a particular treatment to patients *not* paid for with federal dollars.
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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By doing so here, the Trump Administration runs smack into the prohibition on Medicare and Medicaid regulating the practice of medicine (as opposed to deciding what they'll pay for). Congress recognized regulating the practice of medicine is a state function, not one for Medicare/Medicaid.
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM