Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles is keeping the latest restrictions on gender-affirming care as hospital officials review federal judge’s decision to suspend part of Trump Executive Order Adolescent blockers, hormones and other procedures for transgender youth.
In a separate ruling, a U.S. District Court judge issued interim restraining orders in Baltimore and Seattle to put a portion of Trump’s executive orders on hold, including guiding federal agencies to ensure a child in a hospital that receives federal research or education. ”
Hospital CEO Paul Viviano and COO Lara Khouri said in an email to staff that they welcomed the temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge, but They are still being reviewed to understand what it means.
One of them “disappointingly, it seems to apply only to the three states that filed the lawsuit” and the other, based solely on whether gender-affirming care is specified, prevents the executive order from being “related to certain federal agencies withholdings or conditional funds.” The part of the “ CHLA leaders said, young people said.
Chla said earlier this month Paused startup When assessing Trump’s executive order, hormone therapy is used for “gender confirmation care patients” under the age of 19. In addition, Los Angeles Hospital also said it has stopped gender-affirming surgeries for minors
Viviano and Khouri said in an email to hospital staff that restricting hormone therapy “was a difficult decision and was quickly taken.” The decision “was poorly communicated and we apologize for that.”
A CHLA spokesman said Wednesday there were no updates to its policy on gender-affirming care.
LGBTQ+ advocate and Los Angeles City Councilman Ysabel Jurado and Hugo Soto-Martinez join hundreds protest This month, it said outside of Los Angeles hospitals that the move endangers the health of transgender youth and violates major guidance Medical organize Just like the American Academy of Pediatrics, transgender youth are advised to have access to gender-affirming care.
CHLA’s move limits the care move to be celebrated by groups such as the California Family Council. The California Family Council condemned health care services that are harmful to young people and urged other hospitals to follow facilities in New York, Virginia and elsewhere and suspend services. .
exist letter Sent two weeks ago Atti, California. General Rob Bonta’s Office Warn Los Angeles Hospital Withholding gender-affirming care from trans youth can violate California law. LGBTQ advocates also stressed that many of the changes outlined in the Executive Order involve uninitiated federal rulemaking.
CHLA’s Viviano and Khouri stressed in their message to staff that hospitals rely heavily on federal funds. “In our decades in hospital management, we can’t think of a period where there is more risk of CHLA,” they wrote. “What we want to be clear is that every decision we make is all patients and teams. First member.”
Parent Jesse Thorn’s children were cared for in CHLA, saying he was sympathetic to fear, but “I would also ask them to search their hearts and say, ‘Which people will we stop offering?’ Where to draw lines?”
Transgender youth and other people’s families have Prosecution Trying to block Trump’s executive order, saying it violates the rights of trans youth. U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson in Baltimore Granted their requirements Temporary restrictions Order The executive order “seems to deny that the population even exists, or should,” and that undermining their care could cause “irreparable harm.”
The restriction sequence in this case lasts for 14 days, but can be extended. Another federal judge in Seattle also approved a temporary restraining order to suspend executive orders Friday in response to lawsuits by the Democratic attorney general of Washington, Oregon and Minnesota. this Order It applies to “in the plaintiff’s country” which excludes California, released Friday.
Dannie Ceseña, director of the California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network, said that as of last week, he had no idea of any California health care providers who had continued to suspend care outside of Bonta’s publicly to the Transgender Parken of the Transgender Parken of the Chla. question.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
