(The National Pulse)—President Donald J. Trump’s executive order banning the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of American children through irreversible transgender medical interventions is already bearing fruit, with many institutions canceling or pausing all so-called “gender-affirming care.”
The White House has produced an illustrative list highlighting various jurisdictions and institutions where poorly evidenced transgender treatments have been curtailed:
- NEW YORK: NYU Langone Health has begun canceling appointments for “gender-affirming care” for minors, including for two 12-year-olds who were scheduled to receive puberty-blocking implants.
- COLORADO: Denver Health has ceased performing gender reassignment surgeries on minors, and UCHealth has announced the termination of “gender-affirming care” for all minors.
- VIRGINIA: VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU have put a hold on providing transgender-related medications and surgeries to minors. Similarly, UVA Health has suspended all transgender-related services for minors.
- WASHINGTON, D.C.: Children’s National Hospital has paused the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone therapies for minors, with Northwest Washington Hospital following suit.
- ILLINOIS: Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is currently reviewing its transgender-related services for minors.
- PENNSYLVANIA: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is conducting a thorough review of the transgender-related services they offer to minors.
President Trump’s executive order states that it is “a stain on our Nation’s history” that medical professionals have been “maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions” unchecked in recent years.
