(LifeSiteNews) — Stanford Medicine is pausing gender surgeries for minors thanks to President Donald Trump’s order.
In a June 24 statement to the San Francisco Chronicle, Stanford Medicine announced an end to its irreversible “gender transition” surgeries for minors under 19, joining an ever-growing list of hospitals to abandon the practice.
“After careful review of the latest actions and directives from the federal government and following consultations with clinical leadership, including our multidisciplinary LGBTQ+ program and its providers, Stanford Medicine paused providing gender-related surgical procedures as part of our comprehensive range of medical services for [so-called] LGBTQ+ patients under the age of 19, effective June 2, 2025,” the statement read.
“We took this step to protect both our providers and patients,” the statement claimed. “This was not a decision we made lightly, especially knowing how deeply this impacts the individuals and families who depend on our essential care and support.”
“Even as circumstances change, we remain committed to providing high-quality, thorough and compassionate medical services for every member of our community,” the statement concluded, suggesting Stanford will continue “transitioning” children in other ways.
The news followed Trump’s executive order banning federal funds to medical entities that “transition” minors. Since Trump signed the order, many medical associations have announced an end to the dangerous practice of irreversible “transitioning” of minors.
Indeed, a significant body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often-irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80 percent of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and that “reassignment” procedures fail to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
Many oft-ignored detransitioners attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject, many of whom take an activist approach to their profession and begin cases with a predetermined conclusion in favor of “transitioning.”
So-called “gender-affirming” physicians have also been caught on video admitting to more old-fashioned motives for such procedures, as with a 2022 exposé about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s “Clinic for Transgender Health,” where Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said outright that “these surgeries make a lot of money.”
