Some hospitals pauses gender affirming care to evaluate Trump’s executive order

Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia and the nation’s capital said on Thursday that they have paused gender -affirming care of young people as they assess President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at cutting federal support for such care.

Denver Health in Colorado has stopped providing gender -affirming operations for people under 19, a spokesman confirmed Thursday to comply with the executive order and continue to receive federal funding. It is unclear whether the hospital continues to provide other gender -affirming care of adolescents, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers.

In Virginia, VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond said they have suspended gender -affirming drugs and gender -affirming surgical procedures for them under 19 years old.

In Washington, DC, Children’s Hospital said the hospital had “paused prescription for puberty blockers and hormone therapy to comply with the directives while evaluating the situation further.” The hospital did not already perform gender -affirming surgery on minors, a spokesman said on Thursday.

Trump’s order, signed on Tuesday, is part of a push to turn the bite -administration policies intended to protect trans -tight people and their care. It ordered agencies to take steps to ensure that hospitals receiving federal research and educational scholarships, “concludes the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”

Other hospitals told Associated Press that their current practice would continue. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago said the hospitals of the hospital undergoing the order and “assessing any potential influence on the clinical services we offer our patient families.”

“Our team will continue to advocate access to medically necessary care, which is based on science and compassion for the patient families we are so privileged to earn,” the statement states.

The language of Trump’s executive order-in-help of words such as “Damping”, “Sterilization” and “Mutilation” opposing what is typical of gender-affirming care in the United States. It also feels guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as “Junk Science.”

WPATH said in a statement that restrictions and prohibitions on “Access to the necessary medical treatment of transking adolescents are harmful to patients and their families.”

Gender -affirming medical treatment of transking youth is not common. A new study shows that fewer than 1 in 1,000 US young people with commercial insurance received puberty blockers or hormones for a recent five -year period, and most of the gender -affirming operations are not performed on youth.

Denver Hospital said Trump’s order would affect the mental health of its transnry patients and that they would continue to receive primary and behavioral health care.

“Denver Health is committed to and deeply concerned about the health and safety of our gender -differential patients under the age of 19,” says the hospital’s statement.