Children's Hospitals are Shutting Down Transgender Services.

On Tuesday, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles closed its Center for Transyouth Health and Development. Also this week, children’s hospitals in Connecticut and DC announced that they would be scaling back or discontinuing “gender-affirming care” for minors. This follows a wave of similar announcements that began in January; hospitals in Virgina, Colorado, Delaware and elsewhere have at least paused such treatments under pressure from the Trump administration. Nonprofit health-care giant Kaiser Permanente said on Wednesday that it will halt sex-modification surgeries on people under 19. And last month, of course, in United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee state law “restricting sex transition treatments for minors.”