Children’s Minnesota plans to pause some gender-affirming care for kids after the Trump administration threatened to cut off federal funding to hospitals providing those services.
The pediatric health care system announced Tuesday that it will temporarily stop prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to patients under the age of 18, citing “an increase in federal actions directed at health systems like ours that provide this care.”
“These actions jeopardize the stability of Minnesota’s only comprehensive pediatric health care system, and they threaten our clinicians’ ability to practice medicine now and in the future,” Children’s Minnesota says in a statement on its website.
The pause will take effect on Feb. 27, “unless conditions change.”
Children’s Minnesota will continue to offer other gender health services to young patients, including supportive care, mental health services and guidance regarding medical and non-medical treatment options.
