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CV NEWS FEED // The University of Virginia (UVA) Health Hospital announced Saturday that it will stop transgender medical treatments for new patients, which had included children as young as 11.
The decision comes in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting “the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another.” The order warns that institutions continuing the procedures risk losing federal funding.
UVA Health has been administering trans-related surgeries and procedures to minors as young as 11 and young adults up to age 25, including puberty blockers and powerful cross-sex hormones like testosterone and estrogen.
In a new resolution, the UVA Board of Visitors (BOV) ruled that while current patients may continue receiving the treatments, no new patients will be accepted. New patients will instead be “referred to alternate private healthcare providers.”
The resolution emphasizes the financial stakes, stating, “The University receives significant federal funding each year and a loss of such federal funding would jeopardize the financial viability of the University.”
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin applauded the decision on X.
“Common sense and medical ethics have prevailed,” Youngkin wrote. “I’m grateful to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors for its action today to stop harmful transgender treatments for minors and to transfer existing patients to other providers.”
UVA Health now joins a growing number of hospitals pausing or ending so-called “gender-affirming” procedures on minors in response to Trump’s executive order. As CatholicVote previously reported, several major children’s hospitals have already taken similar steps in recent weeks.
