New York Hospital ceases to treat 2 children after Trump’s Trans Care Order

A New York New York Hospital System began to cancel appointments for transgender children following the executive order of President Trump threatening to retain federal funding for hospitals that provide treatments affirming sex, according to parents of children.

The hospital system, Nyu Langone Health, has made no public announcements. But the word has spread among the parents of trans children after the hospital canceled the appointments for two 12-year-old children who were to receive implants that provide puberty blocking drugs.

The father of one of the children said that his child’s doctor told him that because of the “new administration” – a reference to Mr. Trump’s decree – the hospital could not carry out the procedure. The child had been owed Thursday to have a small device that would release the DE, a puberty blocking medication, located in the top of the arm. The father said that the doctor had suggested that he try to call other hospital systems in New York or that the doctor recommended Philadelphia.

The second young age of 12 was to have the same procedure on Friday. The mother of this child said that she had been informed that the appointment of her child was canceled on Wednesday, one day after the publication of the decree. When she asked why, she said, she was told that the medical team “was waiting for more advice”.

A spokesman for Nyu Langone Health, Steve Ritea, refused to comment, saying that he had no information he could share. Nyu Langone is one of the many major medical centers in the city with transgender health programs for young people and adolescents. About 3% of adolescents aged 13 to 17 in New York stated that they were transgender, about double the national average, according to a recent survey.

The executive decree in question is part of a wave that President Trump issued concerning gender and trans problems during his first two weeks in power. It aims at doctors and hospitals who provide trans Trans under the age of 19 with medical treatment affirming sex, which can include puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery.