More than 20 clinics have closed down, including the biggest one of its kind in Los Angeles. But the proponents of “gender transitioning” treatments are not backing away.
By Catholics for Catholics
Finally, after years of setbacks for opponents of youth gender clinics that perform medicalized and surgery treatment to allegedly sexually “transition” young people, the tide is turning.
In wake of the Trump’s administration policies, from the California coast to places like New York, both bastions of “gender-affirming care” policies that promote transitioning, these clinics have been closing down.
In one instant, the nation’s largest, the pediatric transgender clinic Center for Transyouth Health and Development, “the largest transgender youth clinic in the United States,” closed down on July 22, according to The Epoch Times. The clinic was located inside the mammoth-sized Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
BREAKING 🚨 Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles is CLOSING its center for tr*nsgender youth. HUGE
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) June 13, 2025
Thanks to Donald Trump’s Pressure, they will be closing on July 22nd
Anyone else vote for this ? pic.twitter.com/B1EFBPhcgm
The Epoch Times reported that these types of clinics did not exist in the United States until one opened in Boston in 2007. Since then, these centers have erupted everywhere.
Nevertheless, at least 20 medical facilities will no longer be providing some of these services, according to a White House statement last month.
That is because centers that provide chemical and surgical treatments to gender- perplexed children now confront swelling tension under new state laws, federal policy changes, investigations into their practices, and litigation. At least two disputes over gender-related treatment reached the U.S. Supreme Court this year.
In addition, in Europe, several countries that previously were all in when it came to backing transgender interventions, scaled back after reviews showed poor aftermaths.
The transgender procedures, sometimes irreversible, were employed to treat people diagnosed with gender dysphoria—a psychiatric condition in which people believe there is a mismatch between their biological sex and their self-perceived identity.
About half of the states in the United States banned such treatments for minors in recent years. Court challenges followed.
Still, the proponents of transgender affirming care and policies show no signs of backing off. In fact, it seems it has reinvigorated them to keep the pressure on.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Center for Transyouth Health and Development — closed.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 17, 2025
Phoenix Children's Hospital — stopped providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors.
Stanford Medicine — ended sex change surgeries for minors.
Lurie Children's Hospital of… pic.twitter.com/NXNYnV6I3C
The Epoch Times reported that more than 7,000 children were prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones during the first three years of President Joe Biden’s term in office, according to a report from the Trump White House. Also, upwards of 4,000 youths underwent “sex-trait modification surgical interventions such as mastectomies.” The Biden administration staunchly supported the “gender-affirming” approach.
“Affirming a transgender child’s identity is one of the best things a parent, teacher, or doctor can do to help keep children from harm, and parents who love and affirm their children should be applauded and supported, not threatened, investigated, or stigmatized,” the Biden White House said in a 2022 statement.
Nearly 300,000 U.S. children, ages 13 to 17, identify as transgender, according to The Williams Institute. Its 2024 report said 93 percent of those teens were living in states that have passed or proposed laws banning access to “gender-affirming care” or other transgender-related restrictions.
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