Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia and the capital of the country said on Thursday that they were paused Gender-confirming care For young people while they evaluate The Executive Order of President Donald Trump Focused on reducing federal support for such care.
Denver Health in Colorado has stopped providing gender -confirming operations for people under the age of 19, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday to meet the executive order and to continue to receive federal financing. It is unclear whether the hospital will continue to offer other gender -confirming care for young people, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers.
In Virginia, VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond said that they have suspended gender -confirming medication and gender -confirming surgical procedures for people under the age of 19.
In Washington, DC, Children’s National Hospital said that the hospital “had paused regulations of puberty blockers and hormone therapy to meet the guidelines while we further assess the situation.” The hospital has not already performed gender -confirming operation for minors, a spokesperson said on Thursday.
The order of Trump, signed on Thursday, is part of a push to reverse the policy of Biden Administration that is intended to protect transgender people and their care. It ordered agencies to take steps to ensure that hospitals that received federal research and educational fairs “put an end to the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”
Other hospitals told The Associated Press that their current practices would continue. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago said that hospital officials revise the order and “assess any possible impact on the clinical services that we offer to our patient families.”
“Our team will continue to argue for access to medically necessary care, based on science and compassion for the patient families that we are so privileged to serve,” said the statement.
The language in the executive Order of Trump – using words such as “mutilation”, “sterilizing” and “mutilation” – is in contradiction with what is typical of Gender-confirming care In the United States. It also labels guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as ‘Junk Science’.
Wpath said in a statement that restrictions and prohibits “access to necessary medical care for transgender youth are harmful to patients and their families.”
Gender -confirming medical care for transgender youth is not common. A New study Show that less than 1 in 1,000 American adolescents with commercial insurance received puberty blockers or hormones for a recent five -year period, and the majority of sex treatment operations received are not performed About young people.
The Denver Hospital said that Trump’s command would influence the mental health of his transgender patients, and that they would continue to receive from primary and behavioral health care.
“Denver Health is dedicated to and deeply concerned about the health and safety of our sexual patients under the age of 19,” said the hospital’s statement.
– By Carla K. Johnson, Devna Bose and Laura Bargfeld