"Offering science- and research-based health care to transgender and gender diverse youth is part of Children's Minnesota's vision of being every family's essential partner in raising healthier children."
"On February 27, Children's Minnesota released a statement noting that they would temporarily pause prescribing puberty-suppressing medications and pubertal hormones for patients under age 18 in our Gender Health program."
"The threat to Children's Minnesota's federal funding came in December when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a declaration deeming puberty blockers, hormone treatment, and surgeries as unsafe."
Children's hospitals in Minnesota have fully reinstated their gender-affirming care programs for individuals under 18 after a month-long suspension. The pause was initiated following threats to federal funding from the Trump administration. Children's Minnesota emphasized the importance of providing science-based healthcare to transgender and gender-diverse youth. Although prescribing puberty-suppressing medications and hormones was temporarily halted, mental health care and counseling continued during the pause. The hospitals do not perform gender-affirming surgeries on minors, which were not affected by the funding threats.
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