Are Children’s Hospitals Directly Defying President Trump’s Executive Order?

By The Blog Source

According to a recent investigation, several children's hospitals continue to deliver puberty blockers, hormone replacement treatment, and even surgical procedures to kids in spite of President Donald Trump's executive order defunding medical institutions and hospitals that perform sex modifications for minors. Legal challenges to the injunction have been used by some hospitals as an excuse to continue providing treatment.

On January 28, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ordering federal agencies to stop supporting hospitals that perform what he called the "chemical and surgical mutilation of children." Hospitals nationwide still perform these contentious treatments despite the order's directive for agencies to act immediately to guarantee compliance.

More than 36 federally funded institutions continue to offer "gender-affirming care," including as hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and, in certain situations, surgical sex changes for adolescents, according to a Daily Caller investigation. Despite Trump's order, hospitals like Bay State Medical Center and Boston Medical Center have stated that their offerings will not change.

A receptionist at the University of Minnesota Health confirmed that individuals as young as 14 are eligible for "top surgery." The Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai, meanwhile, told the Daily Caller that surgical decisions are handled on a "case-by-case basis" and that there is no age limit for such treatments.

Due to legal challenges to Trump's executive order, several facilities are now able to continue providing children with sex-change treatments. According to Children's Hospital Colorado, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Trump's order after a case brought by the attorneys general of Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota was filed. Another Biden-appointed judge in Baltimore also decided in a different case that the government must keep paying federal funds to hospitals that carry out these treatments as long as the complaint is pending.

In reaction to Trump's directive, several hospitals have adopted a more cautious stance. Citing worries about possible legal repercussions for healthcare practitioners, Children's National Hospital has paused hormone therapy and prescription renewals for children, and the University of Virginia Medical Center has stopped offering new gender therapies to minors.

Research has intensified the discussion over these treatments by raising doubts about the long-term implications of medical therapies for gender-dysphoric infants. The Cass Review, a recent four-year study conducted in the UK, found "weak evidence" that puberty blockers enhance mental health and expressed grave concerns about the therapies' long-term effects. The National Health Service of the United Kingdom responded by declaring that it will no longer prescribe puberty blockers outside of clinical research settings.

The Biden-appointed court and left-leaning medical institutions are attempting to maintain taxpayer-funded child sex-change treatments in violation of President Trump's executive order. Legal challenges continue to fuel the ongoing battle over these treatments. 

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