redstate.com By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
While much of the transgender debate has surrounded restricting so-called gender affirming care to minors, most acknowledge that legal adults can make the decisions to undergo hormone treatments and consent to such surgeries. However, with the federal government and certain states restricting taxpayer dollars from funding youth transgender surgeries, hospitals that offered this service are closing their doors in order to protect their Medicare and Medicaid funding. This has also produced a chilling effect on the less lucrative adult-end of transgender surgeries.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Tennessee’s sole provider of adult transition surgeries, has decided to discontinue the practice, “citing operational limitations.” This is a first occurrence of a hospital closing out its adult wing for sex-change operations; it probably will not be the last.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is discontinuing surgeries for transgender adults, the latest announcement for the Nashville hospital after a series of escalating concerns about its care for LGBTQ+ patients…
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