"In recent months, a growing number of hospitals in blue states have shuttered their gender-affirming care programs for transgender youth and young adults up to 19 - not because of flaws in the care itself, which they have provided to thousands of patients without issue, but because of threats from the Trump administration. Rather than stand up to those threats and risk losing federal funding, these hospitals have chosen to abandon their transgender patients - an act many parents describe as outright capitulation, and one that likely violates state nondiscrimination laws."
""The announcement from the University of Michigan that they will no longer provide their transgender patients with all of the healthcare options available is shameful, dangerous, and potentially illegal," Attorney General Nessel said in response. "This cowardly acquiescence to political pressure from this president and his administration is not what patients have come to expec"
Hospitals in several blue states have closed gender-affirming care programs for transgender youth and young adults up to 19 because of threats from the Trump administration, not clinical concerns. Many institutions prioritized avoiding loss of federal funding over continuing established care, leaving patients without services and prompting parental outrage. Those program closures likely contravene state nondiscrimination laws. State attorneys general have mostly pursued lawsuits against the federal government until now, allowing hospitals to cease services. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel warned the University of Michigan Health that halting such care may violate state law and pledged to use all available enforcement options to restore compliance.
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