L.A. Children’s Closes Trans Youth Center Under Pressure from Trump Admin, Joins Growing List of Closures

The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles closed its child-focused Center for Transyouth Health and Development, a public provider of gender-related treatments for children that has been running for more than three decades, due to “severe impacts” of the Trump administration’s policies.

“Center team members were heartbroken to learn of the decision from hospital leaders, who emphasized that it was not made lightly, but followed a thorough legal and financial assessment of the increasingly severe impacts of recent administrative actions and proposed policies,” reads a statement by the Children’s Hospital. The closure is effective Tuesday, July 22.

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