TACOMA, Washington (LifeSiteNews) — MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in the state of Washington is the latest hospital system to stop giving “gender-transition” drugs to minors in response to pressure from the Trump administration.
The News Tribune reports that Mary Bridge Children’s is no longer accepting new clients, maintaining a wait list, or filling new hormone-replacement or puberty blocker prescriptions for gender-confused children, and has removed several related resources from its website (it reportedly did not offer “transition” surgeries). It had previously offered gender interventions since 2015 and was the only facility to do so in Pierce County, Washington.
“Mary Bridge remains deeply committed to our [so-called] gender-diverse patients,” the hospital notified patients in August ahead of the move. “While the wait list for medical interventions is no longer available, we will continue to provide new patients with behavioral health care, which includes mental health assessments, counseling and support services.”
The news follows similar announcements by the University of Michigan, Yale Medicine, Kaiser Permanente, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, UChicago Medicine, Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and Advocate Health Care in Illinois.
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.
Fifteen states are currently challenging the Trump administration in court over its efforts, but they have yet to secure an injunction.
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 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.”
