US EditionU-M Health Ends Transgender Treatment for Minors
The University of Michigan halted gender-affirming treatments for under-19s amid federal probes and legal pressures, affecting care for youth across Michigan, officials said.
- On Monday, the University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine announced they will stop offering puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones to patients younger than 19, with Mary Masson confirming the discontinuation.
- HHS investigators opened a probe in June and issued a mid-July subpoena, prompting Michigan Medicine to halt gender-affirming care amid a federal criminal and civil investigation involving more than 20 doctors and clinics.
- Federal pressure and executive action have escalated, with President Donald Trump signing a January executive order restricting grants and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joining a multistate lawsuit, calling the university's move 'potentially illegal'.
- Michigan Medicine said it will continue other appropriate care while halting puberty blockers and hormones for transgender youth under 19, amid research linking interruptions to mental-health risks.
- Other health systems and clinicians are watching closely as political and legislative pressure mounts, with Michigan Republican lawmakers proposing to ban gender-affirming care under 18 and Corewell Health halting new hormone treatments.
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Under federal threat, U-M to end gender-affirming care for minors
The University of Michigan will no longer extend certain gender-affirming care to patients under age 19U-M’s decision comes as the Trump administration pressures doctors to end what it calls ‘gender ideology extremism’For now, transgender care for minors remains legal in MichiganThe University of Michigan doctors will end gender-affirming care for minors under an “escalating external threats and risks” of civil and criminal prosecution. …
University of Michigan Health Ends Gender-Affirming Care
by Andrew Roth The University of Michigan’s statewide hospital network will stop providing gender affirming health care service for minors, bowing to pressure from the administration of President Donald Trump. The statewide hospital network received a subpoena as part of a criminal and civil investigation into gender-affirming care for minors, TPM reported. “In light of that […]
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