President Trump Signs Executive Order Restricting “Transgender” Procedures on Youth
Late last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting “transgender” procedures on youth, including puberty blockers and surgeries such as mastectomies and penile reconstruction. In response, many medical providers including some of the top in the nation for performing them have announced they will comply with the EO.
Overview of the Executive Order
The executive order states that “it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
Impact on Medical Providers
Last year, nonprofit Do No Harm unveiled a database reporting that between 2019-2023, there were 13,000 gender reassignment procedures performed throughout the nation on minors. Among the top states in the nation for those procedures was Ohio, which has since enacted legislation banning such procedures.
The Center Square reached out to more than two dozen medical providers throughout the country based on data provided by Do No Harm regarding their total billing, prescriptions, and surgeries performed, asking them how they planned to respond to Trump’s EO.
Responses from Medical Providers
Several medical providers have announced changes in response to the executive order:
- UW Medicine stated it is currently in compliance and continuing to provide its full spectrum of services.
- Seattle Children’s Hospital, a top provider for puberty blocker prescriptions, has reportedly suspended those services.
- MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital is monitoring the situation but does not perform gender-affirming surgeries.
- Children’s National Hospital in D.C. will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or hormone therapy.
- Coolie Dickinson Hospital in Massachusetts is reviewing the impact of the executive order.
- University of Michigan Health is assessing the potential impact on its healthcare services.
- VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Virginia have ceased gender transition services for anyone under 19.
- UCSF’s Gender Affirming Care and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles have also ended services for patients under 19.
- Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York is monitoring the situation.
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are reviewing their services.
Several hospitals and hospital systems who performed these procedures on minors did not respond to requests for comment on the executive order.
Overall, medical providers are evaluating the impact of the executive order on their services and compliance with the law.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
