Hospitals are ending their trans youth programs at an accelerating rate

[Jessica_Rose]

Hospitals are ending their trans youth programs at an accelerating rate

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/hospitals-are-ending-their-trans-youth-programs-at-an-accelerating-rate/

Greg Owen (1 Aug 2025)

Just over seven months into the president's second term, and despite fervent demonstrations from a dwindling number of public supporters, gender-affirming care for trans youth is disappearing from hospitals across the country at an accelerating rate.

In the past two weeks alone, at least six major medical institutions have ended gender-affirming care for young people amid multiple financial and legal ultimatums from the federal government that threaten the hospitals' survival. 

There was momentary hope in March that the programs might be spared, following a judge's order halting the president's January executive order "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation."

But following the Supreme Court's Skrmetti decision in May allowing Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care to stand, providers across the country came to grips with multiple attacks: threats to end vital federal funding for hospitals (in the form of frozen grants and Medicare and state Medicaid participation); possible investigations and legal proceedings against hospitals for "forcing" doctors and nurses to perform gender-affirming care, and proceedings against medical providers themselves; as well as a legal landscape newly hostile to the rights of trans youth and their families as they navigate medical decisions in the face of government scrutiny.

The latest onslaught against trans medical rights is an effort by the Federal Trade Commission to claim that hospitals defrauded patients and their families about the effectiveness of gender-affirming care.

Not all providers have caved to the pressure though.

[Lori Dee]

Not all providers have caved to the pressure though.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and officials from 15 other states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over efforts to end gender-affirming care for transgender, intersex and nonbinary children and young adults nationwide — calling them an unconstitutional attack on LGBTQ+ patients, healthcare providers and states' rights.

https://www.susans.org/index.php/topic,251675.msg2311400.html#msg2311400

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