Dozens of major hospitals and health systems have halted the provision of gender-related medical interventions for minors, actions that are likely a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.
During his campaign and throughout the first months of his second term, Trump has made stopping so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors a cornerstone issue, repeatedly stating, “We are not going to allow child sexual mutilation.” While politicians have discussed the issue over the years, Trump is now being credited by supporters with delivering concrete results.
This week, Yale New Haven Health and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center joined the growing list of institutions that have ended such services. Though their official statements have not explicitly cited the president’s order, their actions come amid a wave of compliance following the federal directive.
The following health systems have either paused or permanently ended gender-related medical interventions for patients under 18 or 19:
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital: Stopped prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors.
- Stanford Medicine: Ended sex-change surgeries for minors.
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles: Closed its Center for Transyouth Health and Development.
- Denver Health: Suspended sex-change surgeries for patients under 19.
- UCHealth (Colorado): Ceased gender-related services for minors.
- Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago: Ended sex-change surgeries for patients under 19.
- University of Chicago Medicine: Suspended gender-related care for minors.
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital: Halted gender surgeries for minors.
- Rush Medical Center (Chicago): Stopped offering new gender-related services to patients under 18.
- Mount Sinai Health System (New York) and New York-Presbyterian: Curbed gender-related services for minors.
- Penn State Health, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and University of Pennsylvania Health System: Ended services for patients under 19.
- Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (Virginia): Suspended hormone therapy and puberty blockers for minors.
- Seattle Children’s Hospital: Discontinued gender-related surgeries for patients under 19.
- Children’s National Hospital (Washington, D.C.): “Paused” puberty blockers and hormone therapies.
- Kaiser Permanente: Paused surgeries for patients under 19 at all affiliated hospitals and surgical centers.
The executive action, signed earlier this year, threatens the withdrawal of federal funding from medical centers that provide puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgical procedures to minors for the purposes of gender transition. The White House says the policy is a necessary step to “protect children from irreversible harm,” citing growing political, ethical, and medical scrutiny.
Trump’s action comes at a time when the debate over transgender issues has turned the corner in schools, sports, and medicine. His administration is expected to pursue further restrictions, including bans on federal funding for research related to pediatric gender transition and tighter oversight of professional licensing boards.
Where’s the Epstien list though?
Can we prosecute the child molesters yet, what are we waiting for? Trump who are you protecting?
Thank you God, and thank you Trump. I can hardly wait for the lawsuits to start! Class action suit, anyone? Just imagine when these poor kids realize just what has been done to them- and how their whole lives have been permanently ‘altered.’