By TJ MARTINELL | THE CENTER SQUARE
In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting “transgender” procedures on youth, including puberty blockers and surgeries such as mastectomies and penile reconstruction. In response, many medical providers including some of the top in the nation for performing them have announced they will comply with the EO.
The EO states that “it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
Last year, nonprofit Do No Harm unveiled a database reporting that between 2019-2023, there were 13,000 gender reassignment procedures performed throughout the nation on minors; those procedures included both surgeries and prescriptions. Among the top states in the nation for those procedures was Ohio, which has since enacted legislation banning such procedures.
The Center Square reached out to more than two dozen medical providers throughout the country based on data provided by Do No Harm regarding their total billing, prescriptions, and surgeries performed, asking them how they planned to respond to Trump’s EO.
UW Medicine stated in an email that it was “committed to supporting the clinical care needs and well-being of all our patients, as well as complying with state and federal law. We are currently in compliance and are also continuing to provide our full spectrum of services.”
Seattle Children’s Hospital ranked among the top in the nation for puberty blocker prescriptions; though it did not respond to request for comment, there have been reports that it has suspended those services, and its webpage for gender affirmation surgery has since been removed.
MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital located in Tacoma wrote in an email that while it does not perform gender-affirming surgeries, “we are aware of the executive order that calls for an end to gender-affirming medical treatments for children and adolescents under 19 and are continuing to monitor the situation. Executive orders are directives to federal agencies on how they will operate. Much of what’s been issued has not yet become rules for us to evaluate.”
D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital released a statement that it will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or hormone therapy, noting that prior to the EO it did not perform gender affirming surgeries.
Coolie Dickinson Hospital based out of Massachusetts wrote in an email that it “is reviewing to see what, if any, actual impact the executive orders might have and would follow up, if there is any impact. In the meantime, the care we provide to our community continues as normal at this time.”
University of Michigan Health stated that its “teams are assessing the potential impact of this executive order on our healthcare services and the communities we serve. Our priority remains delivering high-quality, accessible care to our patients while ensuring compliance with the law.”
Another medical provider to cease gender transition services for anyone under 19 is VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Virginia, which wrote in a statement that it was “in response to an Executive Order issued by the White House on January 28, 2025, and related state guidance received by VCU on January 30, 2025. Our doors remain open to all patients and their families for screening, counseling, mental health care and all other health care needs.”
UCSF’s Gender Affirming Care in San Francisco has also ended services for patients under 19, a policy also adopted by Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York simply wrote in an email that “we will keep you posted once we have an update on this matter.”
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia both said they were reviewing their services.
Several hospitals and hospital systems who performed these procedures on minors did not respond to The Center Square’s requests for comment on the executive order. The Center Square will continue to seek clarification on whether they plan to comply with the order.
Very pathetic that Seattle Children’s Hospital is involved in the barbaric mutilation of children.
Distributing the toxic jabs is terrible, sexually mutilating children is sick. Will never trust the medical profession again.
This weekend X had a video of hundreds of protesters lining the sidewalks outside Seattle Children’s Hospital waving their gender make-believe flags and expressing their anger over gender mutilation procedures being stopped. Lots of cars passing by were honking loudly to support the protestors. It really was shocking to see how many people favor this being done to children in the name of LGBT “rights.”
Makes me wonder deeply and reflectively … What kind of character traits does an honest – legit – credentialed Doctor have that provides these types of procedures on children? Where do they learn how to do these procedures, do they practice on little puppies during their residency – premed training? How do they justify their actions? Why should we trust these Doctors and their associates to perform medical procedures on us, friends and/or family? When will they honor their Hippocratic Oath obligations?
These absolutely barbaric procedures being done to children should never have even begun. Praise God for President Trump’s bold action to put a stop to it. As for the parents and providers who have done this to children, you will sow what you reaped.
So the hospitals which said that they didn’t do this are now no longer doing this.🤣
They will still have to answer for the children they molested, mutilated and murdered. They should have chosen the millstone.
Way to go Trump, bringing common sense back to America one step at a time. Thank you, Sir.
The Seattle Children’s Hospital webpage about the gender-affirming health care is still up, and they still offer a full range of care for teens and young adults. Trump’s executive order apply only to federal agencies.
Trump’s EO also may extend to agencies that get federal grants and places like SCH don’t want to risk the litigation. See: ‘https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/blogs/enforcement-edge/2025/02/new-executive-order-targets-ngo-funding
“While the order does not specify which organizations may be affected, all forms of federal assistance are under scrutiny and agencies have been given broad discretion to withhold funds,” the lawyers at this firm say.
Let’s wait a couple of days and see if their website is still offering these services that include teaching 3-year-olds how to be queer.
Meanwhile, the unsafe and ineffective Covid clot shots are still being mandated for, and injected into, millions of schoolchildren around the country with nary a peep, and with God-only-knows what long-term repercussions.
But don’t dare say the phrase “turbo cancer” to any corporate doctor, or they will immediately call you a “conspiracy theorist!” It’s funny, though, how so many “conspiracy theories”, of the past few years, in particular, end up turning into conspiracy facts. But the cognitive dissonance of the meek conformist lemmings and quislings will never allow them to digest that fact.