California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a warning hospital to withhold “hormonal therapy” and “gender-affirming surgeries” from minors. , individuals with birth or hormone problems, etc.
Bonta’s guidance and previous letters show that after President Donald Trump signed executives, gender change procedures for children will stop accepting new patients under the age of 19 for hormone-mediated transitions It follows the announcement of the second largest children’s hospital in Los Angeles. order It calls for effective bans and ends of “chemical and surgical amputations” among American youth.
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“California law, including the UNRUH Civil Rights Act, Civil Law Section 51, and Government Act Section 11135 prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity,” Bonta’s office wrote. “It is not so much to choose to deny service to an individual’s class based on protected status, such as withholding services from trans individuals based on gender identity or diagnosis of gender discomfort. Providing services to cisgender individuals is discriminatory. California families seeking gendered care, as well as the doctors and staff who provide it, are protected under state law.”
Chla said she is continuously administering the hormones to existing patients under the age of 19.
Under California law, insurance companies Must do It covers the requirement “gender appiling care” that also includes taxpayer-funded Medi-Cal.
But with Trump’s new executive order, this could change. This is because it continues to implement these interventions against age-restricted Americans and calls for the final outcome of federal funds for agencies that require the enforcement of the Anti-Women’s Century Che Act. It may be. Removal of “gender maintenance care” from compensation through federally funded health programs, including MEDI-CAL.
Bonta joined a coalition of 23 state attorney generals and successfully sued against a widespread federal funding freeze, with U.S. Department judicial justice judicial lawmakers halting funds for transitioning children It is interpreted as applicable to
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“The US DOJ cannot suspend, freeze, interfere, block, cancel or terminate a federal agency based on an OMB memo or a recent presidential order. I said that,” Bonta wrote. Office. “As a result, recent executive orders on gender maintenance care for minors do not provide federal agencies with any basis to threaten or revoke federal funds from hospitals and federally funded healthcare providers.”
According to CalmSome hospitals have already lost federal transgender funds as federal agencies suspend or cancel ongoing grants and contracts, but are preparing to sue to get back the lost money. It’s there.
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