After Trump EO, Hospitals Claim No Trans Surgeries For Kids

Hospitals around the nation claim they are ceasing their child mutilation and sterilization programs after President Donald Trump effectively ended the flow of taxpayer-funded radical gender ideology.

Less than one week after Trump’s monumental executive order, institutions whose stream of federal tax dollars is threatened by their participation in life-altering and often permanent operations announced their intent to scale those back or even end them altogether.

Doctors at New York University Langone Health allegedly quietly canceled two appointments designated to equip children with drugs that would chemically castrate them. As the New York Times noted on Saturday, however, the hospital system “has not made any public announcements” about the future of its mutilation and sterilization programs.

Denver Health told the Associated Press that it would cease “gender” surgeries for minors to preserve its status as the recipient of more than $89 million tax dollars a year. As the AP pointed out, however, it is “unclear” whether the hospital will continue the cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers also barred under Trump’s order. Instead, Denver Health emphasized that Trump’s order is “broadly worded” and committed to advancing radical gender ideology in ways untouched by the White House’s reach such as transgender voice therapy, according to KUSA.

“Denver Health is proud to be one of a very small number of providers of comprehensive care services to all of our patients including to LGBTQ+ and gender-diverse patients. As we navigate the order’s requirements, we will continue to provide primary and behavioral health care to all impacted youth and will work to maintain the level of trust we have built with the LGBTQ+ community,” Denver Health said in a statement.

UCHealth, while allegedly stopping gender surgeries and cross-sex hormones for patients under 19 years old, also committed to continuing “behavioral health services” which “will be available to help support our patients as they navigate these changes.” VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU are doing the same.

The Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., which did not offer genital mutilation, announced it is “currently pausing all puberty blockers and hormone therapy prescriptions for transgender youth patients, per the guidelines in the Executive Order issued by the White House this week.”

Other hospital networks, despite receiving federal funding, were even less committed to observing Trump’s order.

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia claimed it is “closely reviewing recent government actions, including the executive order on Jan. 28” but couched that pledge with desire “to understand how they might impact care for the children who rely on [it],” according to Becker’s Hospital Review. Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital similarly claimed it would be “reviewing” the order but would “continue to advocate for access to medically necessary care, grounded in science and compassion for the patient-families we are so privileged to serve.”

Institutions that have made headlines for their advancement of transgenderism via surgeries and other grotesque procedures on minors are notably silent on the executive order.

Boston Children’s Hospital, which previously advertised its butchering of healthy kids in a string of disturbing videos, did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment. BCH’s “Gender Multispecialty Service” webpage, however, is still plastered with a message committing to advancing the physical modifications that come with radical gender ideology regardless of government attempts to end it.

OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon, which encouraged children it advertises mutilating and castrating to wear “tuck friendly” clothing and solicit sex shops, also did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.

Turning off the federal funding faucet is a common tactic to enact top-down change, but it’s not a guarantee. Without proper enforcement, the hospitals who claim they are complying with Trump’s order could easily keep up their sex-swapping shenanigans just like Texas Children’s Hospital did in defiance of Lone Star State law.

The largest children’s hospital in the U.S. claimed in 2022, shortly after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered his Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate the “transing” of children as abuse, that it would no longer offer chemical castration to pediatric patients. Yet, as whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim revealed, TCH physicians continued to perform transgender interventions on children as young as 11 years old.

The Trump administration knows Haim’s story and played a crucial role in getting the Biden administration’s lawfare case against him dismissed, which is why it should be on high alert for rebellion from other large hospitals around the nation.

While the medical facilities that value their allocation of tax dollars claim they will conform to Trump’s order, many are doing so from blue states known for using their resources to challenge Trump’s authority.

More importantly, most are still openly devoted to advancing transgenderism. Already, some institutions are circumventing the purpose of the executive action — to protect children from the dangers of radical gender ideology — by promoting the social contagion via indoctrination masquerading as counseling.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.