hotair.com By John Sexton
Last month the LA Children’s hospital announced that it would be shutting down the largest gender-affirming care clinic in the United States, the Center for Transyouth Health and Development. As I pointed out here, that center was facing a lot of pressure on both financial and legal fronts. Specifically, the center’s medical director, probably the most vocal advocated for gender affirming care in the US, has been sued by one of her former patients. The same director was also embarrassed by a NY Times story which revealed she’d been sitting on the results of a publicly funded study because the outcome didn’t suit her.
Friday, on the other side of the country, another children’s hospital announced it was also putting an end to gender affirming care.
Children’s National Hospital announced Friday that because of “escalating legal and regulatory risks,” the D.C.-based medical system will no longer provide gender-transition care for patients, leaving families reeling.
Effective Aug. 30, the hospital’s providers will discontinue the “prescription of gender-affirming medications,” according to a statement on the hospital’s website. Mental health and other support services will still be available, the statement says…
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