Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Shuts Down Harmful ‘Center for Transyouth’
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is shutting down their harmful “Center for Transyouth Health and Development,” one of the oldest and largest children’s “gender clinics” in the country.
Pro-child advocates celebrated the closure, as the center will no longer be irreparably damaging minors with irreversible, experimental puberty blockers, opposite sex hormones and surgeries.
The “transyouth” clinic stated its decision “followed a thorough legal and financial assessment of the increasingly severe impacts of recent administrative actions and proposed policies.”
Those administrative actions included announcements by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that they would be investigating and prosecuting those responsible for mutilating and sterilizing children with sexual identity confusion.
In announcing its closure, the “transgender” clinic stated:
For more than 30 years, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has provided high-quality, evidence-based, medically essential care for transgender and gender-diverse youth, young adults, and their families. CHLA is immensely proud of this legacy of caring for young people on the path to achieving their authentic selves.
Despite this deeply held commitment to supporting LA’s gender-diverse community, the hospital has been left with no viable path forward except to close the Center for Transyouth Health and Development, effective July 22, 2025.
It’s important to know that the interventions the clinic refers to as “medically essential care” do not have “high-quality, evidence-based” research behind them. This is a bald-faced lie.
A recent, comprehensive HHS review, Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Review of Evidence and Best Practices, found a lack of good evidence for using drugs, hormones and surgeries for children suffering from sexual identity confusion.
A news release from HHS clearly explained the troubling paucity of evidence and grave risks for confused children who receive these drugs, hormones and surgeries:
This review, informed by an evidence-based medicine approach, reveals serious concerns about medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, that attempt to transition children and adolescents away from their sex.
The review highlights a growing body of evidence pointing to significant risks – including irreversible harms such as infertility – while finding very weak evidence of benefit. That weakness has been a consistent finding of systematic reviews of evidence around the world.
The HHS report lists other countries that have stopped or limited these damaging, disfiguring treatments, including Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. They all found a lack of scientific evidence for these procedures and noted the serious harms and risks to minors.
In addition to the HHS report, England’s Dr. Hilary Cass spent four years reviewing the evidence about “gender identity” interventions for minors and released a 388-page report with 12 research-based appendices.
Dr. Cass explains that there is little evidence for using drugs, hormones and surgeries for minors:
This is an area of remarkably weak evidence, and yet results of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented by people on all sides of the debate to support their viewpoint. The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender related distress.
Journalist and pro-child activist Brandon Showalter has written extensively about the horrible damage to minors from transgender medicine. He touted the closure of the clinic in a post on X:
Focus on the Family heartily agrees. We are thankful that the closure of this clinic means more children will be protected from these experimental, ineffective, disfiguring procedures.
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