Children's Hospital Los Angeles halts transgender care under pressure from Trump
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Story by Sonja Sharp (12 Jun 2025)
Under mounting pressure from the Trump administration, Children's Hospital Los Angeles will shutter its longstanding healthcare program for trans children and young adults this summer, according to emails reviewed by The Times.
The Center for Transyouth Health and Development began telling its nearly 3,000 patient families of the closure on Thursday, saying there was "no viable alternative" that would allow the safety-net hospital to continue specialized care.
"There is no doubt that this is a painful and significant change to our organization and a challenge to CHLA's mission, vision, and values," hospital executives wrote to staff in a Thursday morning email.
The email said the decision to close the center on July 22 "follows a lengthy and thorough assessment of the increasingly severe impacts of federal administrative actions and proposed policies" that have emerged since the hospital briefly paused the initiation of care for some patients this winter.
In the email, executives said that continuing to operate the center would jeopardize the hospital's ability to care for "hundreds of thousands" of other children, noting that federal agencies including the Department of Justice, Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had warned of dire consequences for doctors and hospitals providing care opposed by the administration — including threat of prosecutions for doctors.
This makes me really sad. The Hippocratic Oath literally states:
"I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them"
This flies in the face of that and they should be ashamed. Deeply ashamed.