The Los Angeles Children's Hospital maintains its recent restrictions on sexual care while hospital officials examine the decisions of federal judges to suspend certain parts of President Trump executive decree Taking the use of puberty blockers, hormones and other procedures for transgender young people.
In separate decisions, the judges of the American district courts in Baltimore and Seattle made temporary ban orders to suspend parties of the order of Trump, including a section which orders federal agencies to guarantee that hospitals receiving federal research or education subsidies “put an end to the chemical and surgical mutilation of children”.
In an email to the staff last week, the director general of the Paul Viviano hospital and the chief of the operations Lara Khouri declared that he had welcomed the temporary prohibition orders issued by the federal judges, but always revised them to understand their implications.
One of them “seems disappointing to apply only to the three states that have filed the trial”, and the other only blocked the section of the decree “concerning certain federal restraint or packaging agencies” according to the provision of affirmative care for young people, said hospital leaders.
The children's hospital said this month that it had interrupted initiation Hormone therapy for “patients with gender assertions” under 19, as he assessed Trump's decree. In addition, the hospital of the has also said that it had already interrupted surgeries affirming the sexes for minors.
The restriction of hormonal therapy “was a difficult decision that was taken quickly,” Viviano and Khouri said in their email to hospital staff. The decision “was badly communicated and for that, we apologize”.
A spokesman for the hospital said on Wednesday that there was no update of his policy on the statement of the sexes.
LGBTQ + Advocates and the members of the Municipal Council Ysabel Jurado and Hugo Soto-Martinez joined hundreds of people who protest Outside the hospital this month, saying that the move has compromised the health of young transgender people and challenged major advice medical organizations Like the American Academy of Pediatrics, which recommends that young transgender people have affirmative care.
The decision of the children's hospital to restrict this care was celebrated by groups such as the California Family Council, which has criticized the medical care involved in the transition between the sexes, as harmful to young people and urged other hospitals to follow in the footsteps in New York, Virginia and elsewhere, services.
In a letter Sent two weeks ago, California Atty. General Rob Bonta's office warned Los An hospital That the redesign of care affirming the sexes on the part of young transgenders could continue the law of the state. LGBTQ + defenders also stressed that many of the changes described in the executive decree were based on federal regulations that have not yet been made.
In their message to staff, Viviano and Khouri stressed that the hospital was based strongly on the funding of the federal government. “During all our decades combined in the hospital administration, we cannot think of a time when there was more at risk for the CHLA,” they wrote. “We want to be clear that each decision we take is with all our patients and team members in mind.”
Jesse Thorn, whose children receive care at the Los Angeles children's hospital, said he sympathizes with his fears, but “I would also ask them to search their hearts and say:” What other groups of people will we stop to provide care? “Where do they train the line here?
Families of transgender young people and others have heard To try to stop Trump's decree, saying that it violates the rights of transgender young people. In Baltimore, the judge of the American district court Brendan Hurson granted their request For a temporary restriction order Last week, saying that the executive decree “seems to deny that this population even exists or deserves to exist” and that the disruption of their care could cause “irreparable damage”.
The prohibition order in this case lasts 14 days but could be extended. A federal judge of Seattle also granted a temporary prohibition order on Friday by arresting the executive decree, in response to a trial by prosecutors Democrats of the State of Washington, Oregon and Minnesota. THE order Friday issued that it applies “in the applicant's states”, which do not include California.
Dannie Esseña, director of California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network, said that last week, he did not know any health care provider in California in addition to the children's hospital who continued to suspend care for young transgender people after Bonta spoke of the problem.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
