Source: Fox News
Summary
California Judge Matthew Braner has extended a temporary restraining order, allowing Rady Children’s Health in San Diego to continue providing hormone therapy and puberty blockers to minors despite the Trump administration’s efforts to ban such treatments. The decision comes as New York City’s NYU Langone Health announced it is ending its Transgender Youth Health Program due to the “current regulatory environment” resulting from Trump’s executive order. The order seeks to end transgender treatment for minors and threatens to strip federal Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals that provide such treatments.
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As expected, the matter has reached another stage.
Judge Matthew Braner extended the temporary restraining order, allowing Rady Children’s Health to continue providing treatments to minors. NYU Langone Health, on the other hand, ended its Transgender Youth Health Program. Both hospitals are navigating the “current regulatory environment” created by Trump’s executive order. The Trump administration’s guidance has led to over 40 hospitals restricting such treatments for minors. The legal back-and-forth continues, with California Attorney General Rob Bonta filing a lawsuit against Rady’s initial decision to stop treatments.
The hospitals seem to be caught “between a rock and a hard place,” as Judge Braner noted.
Author: Evan Null
