Federally funded hospitals continue to provide sex change to children despite President Donald Trump’s executive order repaying these services, daily caller surveys have found.
More than 30 hospitals that provide gender transformation to minors and receive federal funding told daily callers they still offer services such as adolescent blockers, hormone replacement therapy or surgery to those under the age of 18.
A receptionist at Boston Medical Center told the caller, “From what I’ve heard, nothing has changed from what providers offer,” in light of the president’s executive order. A representative at the Bay State Medical Center front desk similarly said, “I haven’t heard anything different” when asked if they were offering “gender-affirming care” – E-song representation of sexual change used by pro-transgender activists – For minors. Bay State receptionist warned that parents trying to make an appointment for their children should call early in the morning as they have acquired a large number of new patients.
President Trump has signed an executive order on January 28th that will refund medical schools and hospitals participating in “chemical and surgical amputations of children.”
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“The head of each executive department or agency (agent) that provides research or education grants to medical institutions, including medical schools and hospitals, reads immediately, in conjunction with the Directors of the Administration and Budget Office, that in order to align with the agency receiving federal research or education grants, will take appropriate measures to end the chemical and surgical amputation of children. (Related: Trump signs executive order banning federal funding for child gender changes)
We have confirmed that some hospitals reached by callers are offering adolescent blockers and hormone replacement therapy, as well as surgical gender renaissance procedures for minors, or referrals to other hospitals that provide such services.
“fA receptionist at University of Minnesota Health told the caller.
February, Dean Rebecca Cunningham, University of Minnesota I complained The recent cuts in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are a “direct attack” on the university’s ability to conduct research, and it “creates fear and uncertainty throughout our community.” school I received it Federal funds for 2024 were $628.2 million, including NIH’s $355.6.
Representatives from the Transgender Medicine and Surgery Centre in Mount Sinai provided surgical procedures to young people seeking to identify with different genders and confirmed that such procedures had no age cutoffs. “The doctors will make a decision,” the representative explained, and said the decision regarding the surgical procedure is being made “case-by-case.”
Colorado Children’s Hospital specifically cited the lawsuit against Trump’s executive order as a reason for reopening its provision of child sex changes.
“A voicemail message recorded at Colorado Children’s Hospital stated: “As a result of the Colorado Attorney General joining a federal lawsuit filed in Washington, you have reached the true center of gender diversity at Colorado Children’s Hospital as a result of the Colorado Attorney General being filed in Washington to resume gender violation care, including care for Puberty Rock and Fulmon.”
Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Colorado sued the Trump administration by order and was granted Interim injunction from a federal judge appointed to Biden in Seattle on February 28th. A federal judge appointed by Biden of Baltimore in another lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union issued It continued to provide interim injunctions and the Trump administration with federal funding to hospitals that provide child gender changes while cases progress.
The following hospitals were identified from a list of trans health providers compiled by Transhealth Projecteverything has been confirmed Provide “gender maintenance care” to minors when the caller reaches:
- Akron Children’s Hospital
- Alfred I. Dupont Hospital for Children
- Bay State Medical Center
- Boston Medical Center
- Brown University
- Cedar Sinai
- Children’s Hospital Colorado
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Children’s Hospital in Minnesota
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Cleveland Clinic
- Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
- Duke Health
- Grady Health
- Henry Ford Health
- Johns Hopkins
- Main Medical Center
- Metro Health
- Montefiore Medical Center
- Mount Sinai
- New York University Langone
- Northwell Hospital
- Oregon Health & Science University
- Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego
- Stanford University
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois
- University of Kansas
- University of Maryland
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Rochester
- University of Utah
- University of Vermont Children’s Hospital
- University of Washington
- Whitman Walker Health
The University of Michigan Medical Center confirmed with callers that it offers hormone replacement therapy to patients under the age of 18. Instructions The university’s children and adolescent gender services clinic has been accused of plagiarism while testifying against Trump’s executive order banning biological men from attending schools that allow women to compete in sports. (Related: Exclusive: State legislators warn DOJ of “ethical issues” and support trance fighting Trump’s child sex change order)
Michigan Medicine said they were able to make a statement in a press release on February 7, 2024. I received it $482.8 million from NIH in 2023 became the 11th school in federal research funding.
Other hospitals have chosen to largely eliminate “gender-affirming care” after threats to exempt Trump’s orders.
A resolution by the University of Virginia Visitors Committee prohibits hospitals from accepting new patients for youth gender services, and representatives inform callers that they are not providing medication to people under the age of 19.
Children’s Hospital told callers it has not likewise offered new hormonal therapies, including supplementing existing prescriptions, due to Trump’s executive order.
“Of course, we can continue to provide your family with behavioral health resources and address some of the big emotions we are experiencing with these major changes,” the representative said. “I’m pausing right now. You know, I can refill them until I feel a little more of a sense of the environment and how I’m willing to continue.”
The representative said, “Overall, that’s the best guidance for the time being, as the whole hospital is afraid that providers will lose their licenses if they continue to do so under the executive order.”
A four-year “Cass Review” on the use of adolescent blockers for gender discomfort in the UK found “weak evidence” that such treatments improved mental well-being and raised a red flag regarding the long-term side effects of the drug. National Health Service announced that it would not prescribe adolescent blockers outside the clinical research setting due to the findings of the report.
Tim Sekerak and Adriana Azarian contributed to this report