WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – On August 30, Children’s National Hospital in the nation’s capital will become the latest institution of its kind to cease offering all remaining “gender transition” drugs to minors, thanks to the Trump administration’s rules for federal health dollars.
ABC News reports that the move, which follows a halt to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in January, was motivated by “escalating legal and regulatory risks.”
“We know this change will have a significant impact on affected patients, families and staff, and our care teams are working directly with families of current patients to support them,” CNH announced. “Mental health and other support services for patients remain available. [So-called] LGBT patients are always welcome at Children’s National for other medical needs and treatment.”
The surrender is particularly notable coming from Children’s National, an institution so dedicated to the transgender cause that last year it faced a lawsuit for taking custody of an autistic teenager from his parents to “transition” him without their consent.
The news follows similar announcements by Yale Medicine, Kaiser Permanente, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and UChicago Medicine. All were spurred by one of President Donald Trump’s earliest executive actions upon returning to office: an order that ends all federal financial support for “transition” procedures on minors, rescinds or amends all of the Biden health bureaucracy’s past endorsements of underage “transitioning,” and calls for a review of the medical literature on the subject, enforcing all existing restrictions on underage “transitioning,” and taking regulatory action to “end” the practice to the greatest extent possible under current law.
A large 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.”
“Gender-affirming” physicians have also been caught on video admitting to more old-fashioned motives for such procedures, as with an 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.”
