JD Vance Seeks Criminal Investigation Into Hospitals Doing Child Sex Changes, Citing Evidence Of Fraud

August 13, 2026 3:40 PM ET Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday that he had reported a host of children’s health providers for criminal investigation, citing a new government report alleging their pediatric gender programs exploited children to perpetrate massive fraud.Health providers disguised pricey sex change surgeries and cross-sex hormones with anodyne diagnoses like “endocrine disorder, unspecified,” to bill insurance companies and the federal government, the report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alleges.Vance identified two motivations: Ideology and money.“For years now, some hospitals and healthcare providers have been subjecting children to horrific, experimental treatments in service of radical gender ideologies,” Vance wrote in a Thursday X post. “