“They have no intention of actually using the data,” a Utah health provider treating transgender youth said.The 19th NewsBy Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake TribuneFebruary 4, 2026Few Utahns have witnessed the effects of withdrawing transgender kids’ access to care as Collin Kuhn, a clinical child and adolescent psychologist who specializes in helping their clients navigate challenges and questions related to gender.The difference between receiving care and not receiving care, they said, is “night and day.”“All of a sudden, socially, their world opens up,” Kuhn said of transgender clients after they start hormone therapy — treatment that, Kuhn added, doesn’t start until the client has met with them or another mental health professional for a year or longer. “They’re not just isolating and sitting in their rooms behind a screen.”[...]But in 2023, Utah lawmakers passed what they referred to as a “moratorium” on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, then-state Sen. Mike Kennedy’s SB16. The bill’s GOP proponents, at the time, repeatedly insisted they were concerned for minors’ health and safety. So as part of the law, the Legislature commissioned an in-depth review of all research into the effects of hormone treatments.
And the results didn't come out the way they thought it would.
As the Republican supermajority now moves toward permanently banning such care in Utah, lawmakers continue to sidestep public dialogue about the results of that research — which concluded that gender-affirming care for minors with gender dysphoria is largely found to result in positive outcomes and reduce the likelihood of suicide.Records obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune indicate legislative staff aiding the Health and Human Services Interim Committee initially planned on lawmakers discussing the review’s findings after the report’s delivery last May.
Hey wait a minute! We have to hide this...
Gov. Spencer Cox said at a June news conference that he felt Utah’s limits on access to gender-affirming care are “probably in the right place right now,” adding, “There doesn’t seem to be an appetite to readdress it. I think things have shifted significantly over the past couple years.”
WTF! Trans kid will die! Trans kid will be effected for the rest of their lives with their deep voices all because the governor doesn't have the appetite to readdress it!
This is not good news!
A New York woman received $1.6M for pain and suffering and $400K for future medical expenses after suing doctors over teen transgender surgeryBy Chloe Cole Fox NewsFebruary 5, 2026Two million dollars.That’s how much money a 22-year-old woman just won in a New York lawsuit against her doctors. She sued them for medical malpractice after they cut off her breasts when she was 16. They told her she could become a boy, even though that’s biologically impossible. Now she has won the first-ever lawsuit against doctors who try to give sex changes to kids.That brave young woman isn’t alone.
This is the bull that the right-wing is pushing out!
The woman in New York has a heartbreaking story. She accused a psychologist and surgeon of pressuring her to get a sex-change surgery when she was a teenager. While her mother was opposed to the surgery, she felt like she had no choice but to allow it. That checks out: Doctors tell parents all the time that without a sex change, their child is going to commit suicide. How can a parent argue with that?
I don't know any therapist with forced or encouraged their patients to transition!
For that matter, every doctor who’s even remotely involved in providing sex changes should stop — immediately. People like me are coming for them. They pressured us and hurt us in profound ways. We demand justice. The $2 million that New York woman just won is a start. But this won’t end until the medical profession atones for its actions and stops giving sex changes to children once and for all.
The National Review writes,
By Brittany BernsteinFebruary 2, 2026Welcome back to Forgotten Fact Checks. This week, we look at the lack of mainstream media coverage of a major verdict in a gender “detransitioner” medical-malpractice case, and cover more media misses.As readers of National Review will know, a woman who received a double mastectomy at only 16 as an act of “gender-affirming” care was just awarded $2 million in the first successful medical-malpractice lawsuit brought by a detransitioner.[...]Twenty-eight detransitioner lawsuits are now in different stages of legal proceedings across the U.S., according to the New York Post. But Varian’s is the first known successful lawsuit. The case could open the floodgates for lawsuits of its kind.
This is horrible! This will not only affect minors but also those over 21... the hospitals and healthcare providers are going to backing off surgeries!
Then we have discrimination in the health care industry!
Cal Mattersby Kristen HwangFebruary 4, 2026In summaryThe Unruh Civil Rights Act provides the fundamental protection for equal access to health care regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, experts say. The state has not acted to uphold those protections, transgender rights groups claim.On Friday evening, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against the state’s largest children’s health provider. The complaint accused Rady Children’s Health in San Diego of taking steps to illegally terminate gender-affirming care for transgender youth.News of the lawsuit spread quickly through chat groups of parents of transgender kids, LGBTQ organizations and the broader transgender community. It was the first major action the state has taken against a hospital that had severely limited or ended transgender health services.Many in the community see this move as a major step towards protecting transgender health, but some still question why the state’s legal claims don’t rest on broader civil rights questions. Instead, the key argument relies on the state’s corporations code — a provision governing business transactions — to try to compel Rady into continuing gender-affirming care.
The hospitals are between a rock and a hard place with the fed saying that they will cutoff Medicare and Medicaid funding and the state saying not so fast!
California’s civil rights law — the Unruh Civil Rights Act — is the backbone of the state’s guarantee of equal access to transgender health services, which can include puberty blockers, hormones, surgery and therapy, said Megan Noor, a staff attorney at the Transgender Law Center. The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.Noor said that means, for example, if a hospital offers puberty blockers to a cisgender child who is starting puberty too young, they cannot deny access to that same treatment to a transgender child even if it is for a different purpose, such as giving the child more time to explore their gender identity.
But the hard fact is the feds will bankrupt the hospital by cuttings the funding!
Hospitals say their hands were forced by an unfriendly federal government that does not recognize the existence of transgender people.On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order characterizing transgender health procedures as “chemical and surgical mutilation” and directing agencies to defund any supportive programs.Since then his administration has intensified the pressure against health care organizations. Over the summer, federal investigators issued subpoenas to clinics and hospitals around the country, alleging fraud and seeking medical records. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in November published a self-described peer reviewed report “on the medical dangers posed to children” of gender-affirming care.
And as usual we get caught in the middle!
