Kaiser Permanente to stop gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19

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9. Hospitals are completely shutting down their GAC programs for teens.

There were 5 or so that entirely closed their programs this week, even for existing patients. The guidance is purposely vague to try and bully them into ending all gender affirming care rather than just surgeries, which were so rare that they didn’t really exist. They had to do it to avoid losing their funding entirely.

This happened even in blue states. Yale for example completely ended their program yesterday.

What’s left of the programs is for talk therapy only. That’s it. This is the fate for all the remaining hospitals. If they haven’t ended their teen gender affirming care programs, they are going to soon. It’s effectively banned.