(Daniel Payne/CNA) — Several hospitals have suspended child transgender programs after the Trump administration moved to restrict what the White House describes as the “chemical and surgical mutilation” of young people.
President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order restricting transgender surgeries and drugs for youth, with the president vowing that the United States “will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support” the controversial procedures.
Among other measures, the order directs that every federal agency that offers “research or educational grants” to medical institutions must ensure that those institutions are not administering transgender drugs to, or performing transgender procedures on, youth.
On Thursday the Associated Press reported that multiple major hospitals throughout the U.S. have paused some of those medical practices following the White House’s order.
