Kaiser Permanente, one of the country’s largest healthcare providers, announced this week plans to halt transgender operations on minors, citing a changing regulatory and legal landscape under the Trump administration.
The California-based healthcare giant will hit pause on what LGBT advocates describe as “gender-affirming” surgeries for patients 18 and younger on Aug. 29. While sex-change operations end, the group said “all other gender-affirming care treatment remains available,” including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone therapy.
“Since January, there has been significant focus by the federal government on gender-affirming care, specifically for patients under the age of 19. This has included executive orders instructing federal agencies to take actions to curtail access and restrict funding for gender-affirming care,” Kaiser said in statement Wednesday that referenced President Donald Trump’s
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