Children's Hospital LA to close largest provider of gender procedures for children in the U.S. amid mounting legal and financial pressures
By lauraharris // 2025-07-21
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  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) will permanently close its Center for Transyouth Health and Development on July 22, 2025, after over 30 years of providing gender-affirming care to transgender and gender-diverse youth.
  • The hospital cited mounting legal, financial and political pressures, especially federal and state policy shifts, as making the program unsustainable.
  • The closure follows a January 2025 executive order from President Donald Trump that banned federal support for gender transition procedures for minors, cut funding for related programs and directed legal action against providers.
  • The recent Supreme Court decision in Doe v. Tennessee upheld a state ban on gender-affirming treatments for minors, further discouraging similar care nationwide.
  • CHLA is working to transition care for current patients and has directed families in crisis to national support services such as the Trevor Project and Trans Lifeline.
After more than 30 years as a national leader in transgender youth healthcare, Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has announced it will permanently close its Center for Transyouth Health and Development on July 22. CHLA's center, the largest provider of gender procedures for youth identifying as transgender in the United States, has been offering transgender and gender-diverse youth care and their families since the early 1990s. But due to the escalating legal, financial and political pressures that have dramatically reshaped the landscape of gender-affirming care in the United States, the CHLA decided to close its program. In a statement released Friday, July 18, CHLA cited a "convergence of legal and financial pressures" as the primary reason for the closure. According to an internal memo obtained by Fox News, recent executive actions by President Donald Trump, coupled with proposed federal legislation and California's deepening budget crisis, have significantly undermined their ability to continue operations. "CHLA continues to face significant operational, legal and financial risks stemming from the shifting policy landscape at both the state and federal levels. Over the past several months, California's deepening budget crisis, President Trump's executive orders, proposed federal legislation and rulemaking and growing economic uncertainty have made the situation even more dire," the internal memo read. Staff members were already informed of the closure earlier this July and CHLA is now working to transition care for its current patients.

CHLA closure follows Trump executive order, Supreme Court ruling on trans youth care

The decision to shut down one of the nation's oldest and most prominent clinics serving transgender and gender-diverse youth comes after Trump barred federal support for gender transition procedures for individuals under the age of 19. (Related: NEW STUDY: Transgender (mutilation) surgery rates have tripled across all age groups from 2016 to 2019.) Trump's executive order, signed in January, declared such treatments, including puberty blockers, hormone therapies and surgeries, "medically risky and potentially irreversible," and argued that many minors do not understand their long-term implications. The order banned federal insurance programs like Medicaid and Tricare from covering gender-affirming care for minors; directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue civil and potentially criminal action against providers of these treatments; and suspended federal funding for hospitals, universities and research institutions offering or studying such care, described as "chemical and surgical mutilation." Following the executive order, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a directive freezing federal grants, loans and other assistance linked to transgender programs, pending further administrative review. The hospital's decision was also influenced by the recent 6-3 decision of the Supreme Court in Doe v. Tennessee, which upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-related medical treatments for minors. The law prohibits healthcare providers from administering puberty blockers or hormone therapy to any minor for the purpose of "enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex." In other words, the combined weight of the executive order and the Supreme Court's decision has created a deeply hostile environment for providers of gender-affirming care, particularly those who rely on public funding or serve patients through Medicaid and other federal programs. Visit MedicalViolence.com for more news related to child mutilation and other "gender-affirming" treatments. Watch Chloe Cole recounting how she underwent gender-reaffirming surgery and regretted it after a year in this clip.
This video is from the Liberty Station channel on Brighteon.com.

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Sources include: TheEpochTimes.com ThePrideLA.com Brighteon.com
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