Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged healthcare providers and state medical boards to stop providing “dangerous” sex-change interventions to gender confused children in a letter Wednesday.

Kennedy warns providers to avoid relying on guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health on care for transgender and gender-diverse people.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA Report featured several seemingly fake studies and incorrect attributions.

Unless these journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing there and we are going to create our own journals, in-house,” Kennedy Jr. said.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies in front of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 2025. | Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK

The health and human services secretary said he’d rather have government researchers working for “in-house” publications instead.

The HHS secretary has suggested that he will bar all government scientists from publishing in the top medical journals in the country.

Under the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services has canceled or frozen billions of dollars in scientific research grants and attempted to cull around 20,000 agency employees,