Children’s Hospital Los Angeles halts transgender care

Los Angeles Los Angeles, Los Angeles Children’s Hospital, will close the long -standing health program for trans children and young adults this summer.

The TransouTH Health and Development Center said that on Thursday, approximately 3,000 patient families, the security network hospital is not a “applicable alternative illem to ensure that the hospital continued to special care.

There is no doubt that the hospital administrators are a painful and significant change in our organization and a challenge for Chla’s mission, vision and values ​​”.

E -Posta, on July 22, the decision to close the central closure, the hospital this winter has been shortly paused by the initiation of some patients, “Federal administrative actions and proposed policies are increasingly followed by a long and comprehensive assessment of more serious effects,” he said.

The note sent shock waves through a strictly connected patient community, and his members recently reversed Chla’s short ban on taking care of new patients in February.

Maxine, the mother of an existing patient, refused to give her surname because of the fear of attacking her son, “We were just disappointed, we are afraid and angry.” “The difficulty is how we break the news to this child, who has such a positive experience in children.”

E -Posta executives, the central operation, the hospital’s Justice, Health and Human Services Department and Medicare and Medicaid Services centers, including federal agencies, doctors and hospitals for doctors and hospitals, including doctors, including doctors and hospitals, he said.

“These threats are no longer theoretical,” he said. “When taken together, the recent demanding clues from the FBI to inform the Chief Public Prosecutor Memo, HHS Review and Gac hospitals and its providers strongly points to the intention of making a quick and decisive action against any organization that this administration has violated both as a penalty and civilian.”

The TransouTh Center of the hospital is among the oldest and largest programs in the country and is among the only facilities that provide adolescence, hormones and surgical procedures for transparent young people in public insurance.

However, the hospital is also significantly more dependent on public financing and other pediatric medical centers in California – it is particularly exposed to Trump administration. Approximately 40% of the pediatric beds in Los Angeles are in children.

“Chla has a responsibility to navigate in this complex and uncertain regulatory environment to keep it as clear as possible in this complex and uncertain regulatory environment,” he wrote. “In the end, this painful and difficult decision stems from Chla’s need to protect the ability to work between important external pressures beyond our control.”

In response to President Trump’s executive order, protests exploded in February after a short time stopped hormone treatment for some patients under the age of 19.

This movement was reversed a few weeks later between patient families, LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Groups and the pressure of the State of Justice.

“Let’s be open: The California law has not changed and hospitals and clinics have a legal obligation to provide equal access to health services”. General Rob Bonda wrote days to pause on February 5th.

California did not immediately respond to the requests for comments.

Inner e -mails, the federal government’s pressure on Thursday, on Thursday, also increased support from the state.

“For the last few months, California’s deepening budget crisis, President Trump’s executive orders, proposed to make federal legislation and decisions, and increased economic uncertainty has made even more terrible.” He said.

Activists say that closing is a dangerous precedent.

“Chla needs to be a leader and to be based on Trump administration, because other hospitals note what they are doing, Ma

“Everyone’s focus on the ice raids in Los Angeles feel very appropriate when it is very appropriate,” he continued. “I think this is vile.”

Maxine, the mother was more measured.

“We are gradually going underground, underground, underground, Anne Anne said. “You have put something in place and then you should be prepared when this is taken. We are just a few steps ahead, we try to stick with other parents knowing who our allies are.”