Seattle Children’s Hospital stopped performing the controversial surgeries on minors hours before a 16-year-old girl was scheduled to have her breasts removed.
Seattle’s far-left blog The Stranger spoke to the parents of the biological girl who identifies as a boy who was scheduled to undergo “masculinizing top surgery,” but shortly before the procedure, the family said the hospital told them it was halting the procedures “indefinitely” in response to Trump’s executive order.
According to the outlet, the hospital told the family during a meeting with surgical staff on Tuesday that if the hospital lost federal funds, it could jeopardize other children’s care.
Seattle Children’s Hospital has not returned requests for comment but has removed its “Surgical Gender Affirmation Program” page from its website. However, the hospital’s Gender Clinic page is still online.
The mother of the teen said the family will be moving out of the US, comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and the situation to her grandfather leaving Germany in 1933. She told The Stranger “It was clear that if he got elected things would get very bad very fast. If we had the privilege and the ability to get out–we should.”
She added, “Under an ideal circumstance, I would stay and spend my life on the resistance, but I am disabled and I have a trans child who is also disabled. He’s right, we get out.”
Other hospitals, including Denver Health in Colorado, University of Colorado Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Children’s Hospital of Richmond, and University of Virginia Health have also stopped providing the controversial procedures following Trump’s executive order.
Far-left organizations including The American Civil Liberties Union and PFLAG have sued the Trump administration over the order. New York State’s Attorney General Letitia James has threatened hospitals that comply with the order, claiming they may be violating state anti-discrimination law.
Recent polling has shown that 59 percent of registered voters support a federal ban on transgender procedures for minors compared to only 25% who would not support a ban (NPI, Oct 2-4, 2024 of 2560 respondents with a margin of error +/- 1.9%,).
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