The hospitals in Colorado, Virginia and the capital of the Nation said Thursday that they have stopped gender care that states For young people while evaluating Executive Order of President Donald Trump aimed at reducing federal support for such care.
Denver Health in Colorado has stopped providing gender statement surgeries for people under 19, confirmed a spokesman on Thursday, to comply with the executive order and continue receiving federal funds. It is not clear if the hospital will continue to provide other attention that affirms the genre for young people, including blockers of hormonal therapy and puberty.
In Virginia, Vcu Health and Children’s Richmond Hospital said they have suspended the medications that affirm gender and surgical procedures that affirm the genre for children under 19.
In Washington, DC, Children’s National Hospital said that the hospital had “stopped the recipes of puberty blockers and hormonal therapy to meet the directives while we further evaluate the situation.” The hospital no longer conducted gender statement surgery in minors, a spokesman on Thursday said Thursday.
Trump’s order, signed on Thursday, is part of an impulse to reverse Biden administration policies aimed at protecting transgender people and their care. He ordered the agencies to take measures to ensure that hospitals that receive federal subsidies for research and education “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”
Other hospitals told Associated Press that their current practices would continue. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago said hospital officials are reviewing the order and “evaluating any potential impact on the clinical services we offer to our patient families.”
“Our team will continue to advocate access to medically necessary care, based on science and compassion for patient families who have the privilege of serving,” the statement said.
The language in Trump’s executive order, using words such as “mutilating”, “sterilizing” and “mutilation”, contradict what is typical of gender care that states In the United States. It also labels the orientation of the World Association of Transgender Health Professional as “garbage sciences.”
WPath said in a statement that the restrictions and prohibitions of “access to the necessary medical care for transgender young people are harmful to patients and their families.”
The medical care affirmed by gender for transgender young people is not common. TO New study It shows that less than 1 in every 1,000 American adolescents with commercial insurance received puberty blockers or hormones for a recent five -year period, and most of the surgeries that affirm the genre They are not performed About youth.
Denver’s hospital said Trump’s order would affect the mental health of his transgender patients, and that they would continue to receive primary and behavioral medical care.
“Denver Health is compromised and deeply concerned about the health and safety of our various gender patients under 19 years,” said the hospital statement.
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