The Los Angeles TimesBy Sonja SharpJune 12, 2025Under 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.
And the hospital is not alone, according to ChatGPT...
Hospitals That Have Ceased Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA): Announced the closure of its Center for Transyouth Health and Development, effective July 22, 2025, due to concerns over federal funding and political pressures.
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC): Closed its GENECIS clinic in late 2021, ceasing new prescriptions for puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender patients.
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW): Ended its partnership with Children’s Health to operate the GENECIS clinic, stopping new gender-affirming treatments for minors.
- Children’s Medical Center Dallas: Scaled back gender-affirming care, ceasing new hormone therapy and puberty blockers for minors.
- Children’s National Hospital (Washington, D.C.): Paused all puberty blockers and hormone therapy prescriptions for transgender youth in January 2025.
- VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond (Virginia): Suspended gender-affirming medications and surgeries for those under 19 in early 2025, later resuming care for existing patients but pausing new ones.
- Boston Children’s Hospital: Reportedly began canceling gender-affirming care appointments scheduled for minors in early 2025.
- Lurie Children’s Hospital (Chicago): Canceled gender-affirming surgeries for minors following federal executive orders in early 2025.
- Seattle Children’s Hospital (Washington State): Postponed some gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19 in early 2025.
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Mount Sinai Health (New York): Canceled some appointments for gender-affirming care in early 2025.
- Essence Clinic at St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital (Boise, Idaho): Expected to cease providing transition procedures for children due to state legislation banning the practice.
- University of Oklahoma Children’s Hospital: Announced cessation of gender transition procedures for minors in response to state legislation.
- University of Utah Transgender Health Program: Reduced transition procedures in light of state law, while allowing some exceptions for minors with a documented gender dysphoria diagnosis prior to January 28, 2023.
- West Virginia University Medicine: Clinics are expected to cease transition procedures on minors due to state legislation.
- University of Florida Health’s Youth Gender Program: Expected to cease transition procedures on minors due to state legislation.
- Indiana University Health: Expected to cease transition procedures on minors due to state legislation.
- University of Iowa Health Care: Clinics are expected to cease transition procedures on minors due to state legislation.
- Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital: Expected to cease transition procedures on minors due to state legislation.
- Baylor College of Medicine (Texas): Expected to cease transition procedures on minors due to state legislation.
- Medical University of South Carolina: Expected to cease transition procedures on minors due to state legislation.
I expected it from Texas and other Republican states... but Mount Sinai Health, Boston Children Hospital and Seattle Children’s Hospital are from states that protect us.
Meanwhile... A press release by the Connecticut's Attorney General Tong
Attorney General Tong Calls on Court to Protect Gender Affirming Care
The press release goes in to say,Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland supporting Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, and individual patients and their families, in their lawsuit against the Trump Administration.On February 4, 2025, PFLAG challenged President Trump’s Executive Orders 14168 and 14187 targeting transgender individuals by stating that gender identity was a “false” idea and by attempting to strip federal funding from institutions that provide life-saving gender affirming care for young people under the age of 19. The amici states argue that this action blatantly and unlawfully discriminates against transgender youth based on their identity.“In Connecticut, we don’t inject politics into private family medical decisions, and we don’t let adults bully our kids. It’s that simple,” said Attorney General Tong. “I stand with the parents, kids and doctors fighting for access to life-saving healthcare in the face of Trump’s blatantly discriminatory order.”
While such care remains available in Connecticut, this Executive Order has undeniably and unacceptably scared providers and patients here and across the country. Shortly after PFLAG filed their lawsuit, AG Tong joined 18 other attorneys general in issuing a statement reaffirming their commitment to protecting access to gender-affirming care, reminding providers that federal courts have stopped the Administration from withholding federal funding from institutions, including ones that provide gender-affirming care, and making clear that no federal law prohibits or criminalizes gender affirming care.
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