State AG says CA hospitals must continue transitioning minors, citing anti-discrimination laws

(The Center Square) - California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued guidance warning hospitals that withholding “hormone therapies” and “gender-affirming surgeries” from minors are in violation of state law if they otherwise offer similar interventions to “cisgender” individuals seeking changes to better align with their birth genders, such as individuals with births or hormonal issues.

Bonta’s guidance and earlier letter followed an announcement by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest provider of gender change procedures for children, that it would stop accepting new patients under 19 for transitioning via hormones after President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to effectively ban and terminate “chemical and surgical mutilation” for American youth.

“California law, including the Unruh Civil Rights Act, Civil Code section 51 and Government Code section 11135, prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity,” wrote Bonta’s office. “Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination. California families seeking gender-affirming care, and the doctors and staff who provide it, are protected under state laws.”

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State AG says CA hospitals must continue transitioning minors, citing anti-discrimination laws

CA AG Rob Bonta issued guidance warning hospitals that withholding “hormone therapies” and “gender-affirming surgeries” from minors are in violation of state law if they offer similar interventions to “cisgender” individuals.

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[Tall Timbers]

Congress needs to put many of Trump's executive orders into law.

 

[1LoverofGod]

Congress needs to put many of Trump's executive orders into law.

Trump DOJ Tells Supreme Court It Should Use Biden Admin’s Misguided Fight Against Child Sex Change Bans To Clarify Law​

Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) urged the Supreme Court Friday to move forward with a major case on state laws banning child sex change procedures, despite the change in administrations.

While the Biden administration challenged Tennessee’s law as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause, the Trump administration informed the court it would not take the same position, suggesting the court should keep the case to clarify such laws are constitutional.

“The Department has now determined that SB1 does not deny equal protection on account of sex or any other characteristic,” Deputy Solicitor General Curtis Gannon wrote. “Accordingly, the new Administration would not have intervened to challenge SB1—let alone sought this Court’s review of the court of appeals’ decision reversing the preliminary injunction against SB1.”

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in December, a majority seemed inclined to uphold Tennessee’s ban. Justice Samuel Alito probed the government’s claim that overwhelming evidence shows puberty blockers and hormone therapy improve wellbeing for adolescents with gender dysphoria, pointing to European developments discrediting this position.

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Trump DOJ Tells Supreme Court It Should Use Biden Admin’s Misguided Fight Against Child Sex Change Bans To Clarify Law

Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) urged the Supreme Court Friday to move forward with a major case on state laws banning child sex change procedures.

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[1LoverofGod]

Many medical providers end transgender youth procedures after Trump order​

Since President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting “transgender” procedures on youth, including puberty blockers and surgeries, many medical providers including some of the top in the nation for performing them have announced they will comply.

The EO states that “it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”

Last year, nonprofit Do No Harm unveiled a database reporting that between 2019-2023, there were 13,000 gender reassignment procedures performed throughout the nation on minors; those procedures included both surgeries and prescriptions. Among the top states in the nation for those procedures was Ohio, which has since enacted legislation banning such procedures.

The Center Square reached out to more than two dozen medical providers throughout the country based on data provided by Do No Harm regarding their total billing, prescriptions, and surgeries performed, asking them how they planned to respond to Trump’s EO.

Several Healthcare Providers responded.......
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Many medical providers end transgender youth procedures after Trump order

Nonprofit Do No Harm reported between 2019 and 2023, there were 13,000 gender reassignment procedures on minors.

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[mattfivefour]

Congress needs to put many of Trump's executive orders into law.

Exactly. California technically may be able to ignore President Trump's executive order at this time because it isn't law. But if Congress takes the president's executive order and passes it into law, then the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution will force California to follow federal law rather than its own state law. In fact this is true for all of the presidents executive orders. They need to be backed up with law and a Republican-controlled Congress can make it happen.