Children’s National Hospital to Restrict Access to Puberty Blockers and Hormones
- Levi Mikula
- Jul 23
- 3 min read
Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. announced that it will no longer prescribe “gender-affirming medications,” effective August 30th. The Gender Development Program will be coming to an end due to “escalating legal and regulatory risks to Children’s National, our providers, and the families that we serve,” according to the program’s web page.
The change comes amidst increasing scrutiny from the Department of Justice, which issued more than 20 subpoenas in early July to doctors and clinics involved in pediatric gender transition procedures. It is unclear whether Children’s National Hospital was included in any of the subpoenas, The National News Desk reported. The Justice Department announced on July 9th that its investigations include “healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated, “Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice.”
One of President Trump’s first executive orders, issued on January 28th, required that “within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall publish a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion.” The order also directed the HHS Secretary to “take all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children” and declared that it is now the policy of the United States to “not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another,” adding that the administration will “rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
Gays Against Groomers reported in May that HHS published a 400-page report outlining the dangers of gender reassignment surgeries and other treatments in minors, such as cross-sex hormones, puberty-blocking drugs, and cosmetic sex-change surgeries. “These interventions carry risk of significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret.”
Child gender clinics are falling like dominoes: Children’s National Hospital in D.C., Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Phoenix Children’s Hospital – and DOJ investigations are underway at Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Policies or bans against “gender-affirming care” for minors are already in place in many states: Florida, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona.
Children’s National Hospital shutting down this program is a major victory. But the fight isn’t over. Much more work remains to be done at both the state and federal levels. Gays Against Groomers unequivocally stands with the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent the extremely harmful practice of mutilating minors, and we will not stop until every child is protected from irreversible harm.
References:
ABC 7. (2025, July 21). Children’s National Hospital halts gender transition care. https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/childrens-national-hospital-washington-dc-halts-gender-transition-medical-care-gender-development-program-legal-regulatory-risks-lgbt-patients-justice-department-subpoenas-doctors-clinics-transgender
ABC 7 Chicago. (2025, February 7). Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital pauses gender surgeries for patients under 19 after Trump executive order. https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-lurie-childrens-hospital-pauses-gender-surgeries-patients-19-trump-executive-order-transgender-care/15879712/
Children’s National. (2025, July). Gender Development Program. https://www.childrensnational.org/get-care/departments/gender-development-program
Do No Harm. (2025, February 3). Hospitals pausing child sex-change procedures after Trump’s executive order. https://donoharmmedicine.org/2025/02/03/hospitals-pausing-child-sex-change-procedures-executive-order/
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