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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Anna Betts

US hospitals suspend healthcare for transgender youth after Trump order

a view of NYU Langone Health Tisch Hospital
NYU Langone is among a number of hospitals that have halted gender-affirming treatments following Donald Trump’s executive order. Photograph: Noam Galai/Getty Images

In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from hospitals that offer gender-affirming care to individuals under the age of 19, several major hospitals across the US have stopped providing such treatments.

The 28 January executive order directed federal departments and agencies to ensure that hospitals and medical institutions receiving federal research or education grants stop providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgical procedures to transgender youth under the age of 19.

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