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On Monday, a Minnesota hospital announced its decision to resume offering gender transition medications to minors, reversing a previous pause attributed to federal pressure.
Children’s Minnesota had halted the prescription of these medications in February, following a directive from the Trump administration. This action was in response to a proposed rule by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in December, which aimed to restrict hospitals from administering gender-affirming drugs and surgeries to minors as a condition for participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The hospital is reinstating its “Gender Health Program” following a federal court’s decision to overturn the HHS directive, according to a report by CBS News.
“Providing science- and research-based healthcare to transgender and gender-diverse youth aligns with Children’s Minnesota’s commitment to being an essential partner in fostering healthier children for every family,” the hospital stated.
Additionally, Children’s Minnesota plans to reach out to families affected by the temporary suspension to update them on the program’s resumption.
When initially announcing the pause, Children’s Minnesota said its “Gender Health” remained open to “continue to provide supportive care, mental health services and guidance regarding medical and non-medical treatment options.” The hospital called the pause a “difficult decision” and claimed that “gender affirming care” is “evidence-based and lifesaving for transgender and gender diverse youth.”
HHS said in its December announcement that “sex-rejecting procedures on children,” such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, “expose them to irreversible damage, including infertility, impaired sexual function, diminished bone density, altered brain development, and other irreversible physiological effects.”
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said at the time that “doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect children.”
“Doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex-rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic oath, endangering the very lives that they are sworn to safeguard,” he said during the announcement.
“The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, peddled a lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children who suffer from gender dysphoria,” he added, further accusing them of betraying “the estimated 300,000 American youth ages 13 to 17 conditioned to believe that sex can be changed.”
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HHS has initiated investigations into hospitals across the country for allegedly providing sex-change drugs, and sometimes surgeries, to minors.
In January, HHS General Counsel Mike Stuart referred Children’s Minnesota and several other hospitals for federal investigation. Children’s Minnesota says on its website that it does not perform sex-change surgeries on minors.
The Trump administration’s crackdown on hospitals providing mutilating sex-change drugs and surgeries to minors is a stark departure from the Biden administration, which aggressively pushed sex changes for confused youth and used all levers of government to force broad compliance.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on X @thekat_hamilton.