The Center for Transyouth Health and Development (CTYHD) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), one of the largest youth transgender clinics in the nation, is shutting its doors due to increasing pressure from the Trump administration, The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
CTYHD — which has provided transgender-related procedures such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries to thousands of minors — will close on July 22, according to internal emails reviewed by The Los Angeles Times. Hospital leadership cited “increasingly severe impacts of federal administrative actions and proposed policies” against transgender procedures performed on minors.
“There is no doubt that this is a painful and significant change to our organization and a challenge to CHLA’s mission, vision, and values,” hospital executives wrote to staff on Thursday, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Trump signed an executive order in January that eliminated all federal funding for the chemical and surgical mutilation of children and threatened legal consequences for institutions that support the practices. Moreover, Attorney General Pam Bondi recently directed prosecutors to investigate doctors who perform or attempt to perform sex change surgeries on minors.
