Dozens of children's hospitals continue to offer gender reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers despite Trump's ban
The president signed an executive order to cancel federal funding to healthcare institutions that offer such treatments.
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More than three dozen children's hospitals continue to offer surgeries and drugs related to sex change operations despite President Donald Trump's executive order blocking federal funding to institutions offering such services.
According to an investigation by The Daily Caller, dozens of hospitals confirmed that they continue to offer puberty blockers and even "gender affirming care" to minors, ignoring Trump's executive order.
"Gender affirming care" is actually a euphemism used by transgender activists to refer to gender reassignment treatment for minors.
For example, a receptionist at Boston Medical Center mentioned Trump's executive order and told The Daily Caller: "From what I’ve heard of, nothing has changed with what our providers provide."
Other representatives from dozens of hospitals around the country cited similar explanations, saying they have not stopped offering services related to sex-change operations, even citing the legal battles surrounding the executive order as an excuse.
List of hospitals
Below,the extensive list of hospitals that continue to offer services related to sex-change surgeries, according to The Daily Caller:
- Akron Children’s Hospital
- Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
- Bay State Medical Center
- Boston Medical Center
- Brown University
- Cedars Sinai
- Children’s Hospital Colorado
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Children’s Hospital of Minnesota
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Cleveland Clinic
- Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
- Duke Health
- Grady Health
- Henry Ford Health
- Johns Hopkins
- Maine Medical Center
- MetroHealth
- Montefiore Medical Center
- Mount Sinai
- New York University Langone
- Northwell Hospital
- Oregon Health & Science University
- Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego
- Stanford University
- University of California San Francisco
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois
- University of Kansas
- University of Maryland
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Rochester
- University of Utah
- University of Vermont Children’s Hospital
- University of Washington
- Whitman Walker Health
Legal battle against Trump's order
The discovery comes nearly seven weeks after President Trump signed an executive order where he ordered children's hospitals to stop providing drugs and services related to gender reassignment treatment for minors or else they would suffer the blocking of federal funds.
"The head of each executive department or agency (agency) that provides research or education grants to medical institutions, including medical schools and hospitals, shall, consistent with applicable law and in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, immediately take appropriate steps to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children," reads the order signed last Jan. 28.
The president's order has faced legal disputes, which have emboldened hospitals that maintain the services. For example, Children's Hospital Colorado joined a Washington lawsuit and cited legal battles against the Trump administration as the main reason for continuing to offer underage patients puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
The Trump administration was sued by the states of Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Colorado, which won a preliminary injunction from a federal judge in Seattle on Feb. 28, a month after the executive order was signed.
Also, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a separate lawsuit and won another injunction from a federal judge in Baltimore, ordering the federal government to continue funding hospitals that perform such operations or provide drugs for sex-change operations while the case unfolds and reaches a conclusion.
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