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University of Chicago (UChicago) Medicine has become the latest Illinois hospital to put an end to the practice of subjecting children to experimental drugs and surgeries in the name of treating gender dysphoria.
In a statement released Friday, the hospital said it had “reached the difficult decision that in response to continued federal actions, it will discontinue all gender-affirming pediatric care effective immediately.”
“We reached this conclusion in light of emerging federal actions which would place at risk our ability to care for all Medicare or Medicaid patients,” the hospital continued. “These patients make up the majority of those we serve. As the largest Medicaid provider in Illinois, this step is necessary to ensure UChicago Medicine can continue serving our broader community and delivering on our mission.”
In January, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” in which he threatened to block federal funding to hospitals that subjected children to the often irreversible consequences of the drugs and surgeries.
In 2022, when gender ideology was enthusiastically promoted by the Biden administration, an article published on the hospital’s website touted UChicago Medicine’s designation – for the seventh consecutive year – as a Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader.
“UCM earned the maximum score in each section in the foundation’s index,” the article boasted.
The statement by UChicago Medicine comes on the heels of a similar announcement by Rush University System for Health, which said it had “paused” offering hormonal drugs to minors, effective July 1.
“This decision was made in collaboration with our clinical leaders,” spokesperson Tobin Klinger told the Chicago Tribune in a July 15 article about the end of these medical interventions on children.
“Rush continues to be a strong advocate for the LGBTQ+ community,” Klinger added.
The Tribune noted that the spokesman said the hospital will continue to offer counseling and social services to patients with gender dysphoria, regardless of their age, and it will still “provide the full range of gender care to adult patients based on medical need.”
In addition to UChicago Medicine and Rush, Lurie Children’s Hospital announced in February its suspension of “gender-affirming” surgeries on patients younger than 19.
That specific pause, the Tribune observed, is still in effect at Lurie, as they “continue to assess the rapidly evolving environment.”
Meanwhile, the hospital continues “to provide other care and treatment plans for the program’s patients,” the report noted.
University of Illinois (UI) Health is reported to have canceled a girl’s double mastectomy following Trump’s executive order.
Nevertheless, a spokesman told the Tribune that UI Health “is committed to providing inclusive care to our community. We will continue to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients in accordance with the law.”
As CatholicVote reported recently, the nation’s largest child “transgender” clinic will shut down Tuesday.
The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announced that, after more than 30 years of “caring for young people on the path to achieving their authentic selves,” the hospital “has been left with no viable path forward except to close the Center for Transyouth Health and Development, effective July 22, 2025.”
The Trump administration has maintained its dedication to protecting children and teens from possible predatory individuals and systems in a medical industry that has shown itself to be a product of a political ideology.
Following the president’s executive order, US Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum in April on the prevention of the “mutilation of American children,” in which she detailed how the Biden administration promoted so-called “gender-affirming care” to children and teens.
“The Biden administration bears enormous responsibility for the medical community’s fraud and exploitation of parents and children who have fallen prey to radical gender ideology,” Bondi wrote. “President Biden personally advanced the agenda by hosting transgender activist influencers like Dylan Mulvaney at the White House, opposing state-level bans on gender-affirming care for minors, threatening legal action against Medicaid and Obamacare providers who fail to offer such care, and appointing Rachel Levine-a leading transgender activist who personally identifies as transgender-to serve as Assistant Secretary for Health.”
Bondi added that she was issuing guidance to Department of Justice employees on the enforcement of “rigorous protections” for “vulnerable children and their parents.”
In his order, Trump said that “medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.”
“This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end,” he asserted.
