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.
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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