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.
“Parents have been betrayed by politically captured profiteers at every step,” Bondi’s memo read. “These ‘professionals’ have deployed junk science and false claims about the effects of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ to justify the barbaric practice of surgically and chemically maiming and sterilizing children.”
CTYHD is among the few facilities performing transgender procedures on youth with public insurance, according to The Los Angeles Times. Additionally, the hospital is more dependent on public funding than any other pediatric hospital in the state.
“These threats are no longer theoretical. Taken together, the Attorney General memo, [Department of Health and Human Services] review, and the recent solicitation of tips from the FBI to report hospitals and providers of [gender affirming care] strongly signal this Administration’s intent to take swift and decisive action, both criminal and civil, against any entity it views as being in violation of the executive order,” CTYHD executives wrote, according to the Los Angeles Times.
U.S. hospitals charged nearly $120 million between 2019 and 2023 for transgender procedures to minors on nearly 14,000 children, according to Do No Harm.
The Department of Education is currently investigating California after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law in 2024 prohibiting schools from enacting policies that require teachers and administrators to notify parents if a child requests to change their name or pronouns, use opposite-sex facilities or play on opposite-sex sports teams
At least one parent told The Los Angeles Times that they would be pursuing alternative pathways to obtain transgender procedures for their child, even following the closure of CTYHD.
“We’re slowly going underground, underground, underground,” the unnamed parent told the outlet. “You put one thing in place, and then you have to prepare for when that gets taken away. We’re just trying to stay a couple of steps ahead, sticking together with other parents, knowing who our allies are.”
Neither CTYHD nor CHLA responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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