"Health and Human Services (HHS) General Counsel Mike Stuart has referred three children's hospitals to the agency's inspector general's office: Seattle Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado, and Children's Minnesota. Gender-affirming care for trans youth is legal in all three states. But HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month announced that medical practitioners who provide gender-affirming care to minors are out of compliance with federal health care standards. Now, the agency is enforcing that declaration."
"In response, Children's Hospital Colorado has reportedly paused gender-affirming care for trans youth. Children's Minnesota did not respond to a request for comment, and its website states that "at this time, our gender health services remain unchanged." Seattle Children's hospital also did not respond. Another hospital, Denver Health, has also paused gender-affirming care for trans youth since Kennedy's declaration, although the hospital does not appear to be under investigation."
Health and Human Services General Counsel Mike Stuart referred Seattle Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado, and Children's Minnesota to the agency inspector general. Gender-affirming care for transgender youth remains legal in Washington, Colorado, and Minnesota. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that medical practitioners providing gender-affirming care to minors were out of compliance with federal healthcare standards, and the agency is now enforcing that declaration. Children's Hospital Colorado and Denver Health paused gender-affirming care for trans youth following the declaration. Children's Minnesota's website states gender health services remain unchanged, and Seattle Children's did not provide a public response. Earlier subpoenas seeking trans patients' medical information were legally contested by some hospitals.
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