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The costs of banning gender-affirming care

January 29, 2026

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5 min read

🎙️ The Voices & The Context

  • The Format: Fast-paced news podcast with segmented reports, including ads, market updates, and in-depth features—blending current events, policy analysis, and human interest stories.
  • The Key Players:
    • David Brancaccio: Host in Los Angeles, delivering crisp updates on government shutdown and broader context.
    • Reporters: Nitsi Marshall Genser (shutdown negotiations), Samantha Fields (gender-affirming care impacts); on-the-ground voices like Casey Cash (nurse practitioner) and Dr. Stacy Johns (physician) at the IRIS Center, sharing frontline experiences.
  • The Vibe: Educational and urgent, mixing neutral financial reporting with emotionally charged human stories on policy fallout—serious tone with undertones of distress for affected families and providers.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:35) **Government Shutdown Negotiations**
  • 2 (01:56) **Market Update**
  • 3 (03:55) **Impact of Trump's Gender-Affirming Care Restrictions**

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Show Notes

Last year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at ending gender-affirming care for transgender children and teenagers under 19. Since then, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new rule that would ban hospitals offering that care from receiving Medicaid and Medicare funding. The attacks on transition-related care are having a profound effect on transgender kids and their families, but they’re also having an impact on health care providers. Today, we'll hear more. But first: progress on a deal to avoid a partial government shutdown.

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