Some hospitals pause gender-affirming care to evaluate Trump’s executive order
Hospitals in the nation's capital, Colorado, and Virginia said on Thursday that they have put a halt to gender-affirming care for youth while they assess President Donald Trump's executive order that would reduce federal funding for such care.
In order to comply with the executive order and maintain federal funds, Denver Health in Colorado has ceased performing gender-affirming procedures on patients under the age of 19, a spokeswoman said Thursday. It's unclear if the hospital will keep offering puberty blockers and hormone therapy, among other gender-affirming treatments, to young people.
VCU Health and Children's Hospital of Richmond in Virginia announced that they had stopped providing gender-affirming drugs and surgeries to anyone younger than 19.
Children's National Hospital in Washi...