Children’s National Hospital, located in Washington DC, announced that it will no longer participate in prescribing medication to assist in transitioning children. Breitbart reports that the “Gender Development Program” page of the hospital’s website blamed that this change comes down to the hospital facing “escalating legal and regulatory” risks.
The decision comes six month after President Donald Trump's executive order “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” stating that the US will not support childhood transitioning and will enforce laws against it. This also comes after 20 subpoenas from the Trump Justice Department to clinics and doctors performing “gender-affirming care” on children.
Laurie Higgins, an education-culture writer with Breakthrough Ideas, thinks this is a trend.
"I think the pressure put on hospitals by the Trump administration has been doing very good things, but this is everything. They've stopped everything. So, no puberty blockers, no cross-sex hormones, no surgeries on minors," Higgins explains.
She says potential Christian adoptive parents are prevented from adopting if they won't agree to affirming transgender ideology.
"Parents are the ones who are doing the responsible loving thing, which is to say ‘we're not going to affirm mutilation of healthy normally functioning bodies.’ So, these people, for religious reasons backed up by science, are doing the good and loving thing,” says Higgins. “They are the ones that are being punished.”
Children's Nation Hospital states that though they're stopping providing gender-affirming medicines and procedures, they say LGBTQ patients will always be welcome for other medical needs.
