Chicago Hospital Stops Pediatric Trans Drugs Following HHS Threat
The decision came due to pending “Federal court rulings” and “the rapidly evolving legal landscape”
Lurie Children’s Hospital will stop taking new gender-confused kids as patients and giving them permanently damaging drugs, due to changes in federal law.
The elite hospital announced Tuesday it “will not initiate gender-affirming medications for patients under age 18 who have not previously been treated with these therapies by our team.”
The decision came due to pending “Federal court rulings” and “the rapidly evolving legal landscape,” the hospital said, according to CBS News.
The decision follows an announcement from Health and Human Services (HHS) General Counsel Mike Stuart that he had requested a federal investigation into six hospitals, including Lurie, for “allegedly failing to protect our children from sex-rejecting procedures- procedures that cause permanent terrible harm.”
“Life-altering procedures that do harm must end,” Stuart wrote on X.
SIX hospitals located in SIX different states…
It is truly unfortunate that today I referred to @OIGATHHS for full investigation SIX more hospitals from SIX different states for allegedly failing to protect our children from sex-rejecting procedures- procedures that cause…
— HHS General Counsel Mike Stuart (@HHSGCMikeStuart) January 15, 2026
An LGBT activist group condemned the decision. “What we are witnessing is the result of pressure designed to intimidate health care providers and families before any enforcement has occurred,” Trans Up Front Illinois” wrote on its Substack.
The hospital previously announced it would no longer offer the surgeries, which can leave kids permanently infertile and damaged in other ways, following other regulatory actions by the Trump administration.
Other hospitals have announced pauses on the drugs and surgeries for minors, due to fear of federal litigation or loss of taxpayer funding.
This includes Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego and Fenway Health in Boston.
Since returning to the White House, the Trump administration has moved to cut off Medicaid funding for hospitals that offer body-altering drugs or surgeries to (allegedly) transgender minors.
In December, HHS announced a plan “to bar hospitals from performing sex-rejecting procedures on children under age 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
In May of last year, HHS also released a report finding the evidence in support of the procedures is lacking.
“The umbrella review found that the overall quality of evidence concerning the effects of any intervention on psychological outcomes, quality of life, regret, or long-term health, is very low,” the authors of the report wrote. “This indicates that the beneficial effects reported in
the literature are likely to differ substantially from the true effects of the interventions.”
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Interesting that the LGBT condemned the decision. Why, oh, there’s pressure trying to intimidate health providers.
I’ve lived long enough that the LGBT activists, over many years, intimidated anyone they could who did not agree with their lifestyle.
There’s trans fluid and anti leak, anti slip additives with questionable value
But I don’t think you meant to talk about “Trans” anything. You’re most likely referring to GENDER DYSPHORIA, a severe mental illness associated with horrific acts of violence
-We will never win if you concede the language of the debate
“Dysphoria” — unhappiness.
For the psychs, “gender dysphoria” is diagnosed when the individual is miserable because his “gender” doesn’t match his “sex”.
The diagnosis itself is delusional. These individuals need to be told that people don’t have “genders” and deal with it.
If I can’t carry a tune, but am miserable because I “feel inside” that I should be an opera singer, do I have voice dysphoria? We used to just recognize that people who fancied themselves to be kings or queens or whatever were delusional. If that’s their only delusion, they need to be helped out of it.
Not nearly enough.
There needs to be people prosecuted and severely punished for what they did to all those kids.
All homos are trans, but not all trans are homos, a minority are sims, and the majority are confused or dissatisfied with their sex or gender (i.e. sex-correlated attributes, including sexual orientation) while transitioning puberty.
Leave the minor children out of the cosplay. If as adults with a well documented, proven diagnosis of gender dysphoria including an independent review by physicians/psychologists who have no monetary stake or ideological axe to grind then sure in those limited, rare instances they can decide for themselves.
How can this be an issue? I’ve been assured by All The Right People that none of these procedures are being performed on minors.
/sarc
Notice the propaganda.
What used to be marketed as “transsexuaL” transmogrified into “transgender” — an “internal feeling” that one’s “gender” (which people do not have) doesn’t match one’s sex.
So what’s with the physical “treatments” of drugs and surgeries for an “internal feeling”.
Changing the definition of “gender”. Changing the definitions of “man” and “woman”. (Of COURSE a “man” could get pregnant if “man” merely means someone who looks like a male, even if female, and not someone is actually is a male.)
War is peace… Don’t let them do it. If you’re a lawyer, your best argument is that people don’t have “genders”. The sick “LGBT” lobby has succeeded remarkably in confusing the public to the point that even their crackpot terminology and definitions have been adopted — and this has been muddling our statutory and case law.
If someone dresses up in a costume to look like an astronaut or a unicorn or a robot, that does not make him into an astronaut or a unicorn or a robot. Even if he really, really wants to be an astronaut or a unicorn or a robot. Even if he is delusional and actually “feels inside” that he is an astronaut or a unicorn or a robot
War is peace indeed.
“will not initiate gender-affirming medications”
Gender-affirming. What horseshit.
I was overjoyed to see Stuart use the accurate rebuttal phrase: sex-rejecting.
Addendum. If you’re a lawyer and arguing the meanings of words, and just dealing with language doesn’t work for you, and you too willingly allow words and concepts to be arbitrarily invented, then here:
People don’t have “genders”:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-biological-evidence-for-gender-identity-exists-group-of-scientists-researchers-says
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2160396?src=
they wont stop
they will just put it under a different category of surgery
removed leg hamstring and other various appendages
hippa prevents us from disclosing any more