More Hospitals Stop Mutilation of Sexually Confused Children
More hospitals and health systems announced they are stopping the chemical and surgical mutilation of children with sexual identity confusion.
Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, Lurie Children’s Hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Children’s Hospital and UW Health in Wisconsin said they would no longer offer puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries to minors.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported an announcement from Children’s Hospital Wisconsin:
In San Diego, the local NBC affiliate reported that Rady Children’s was “under federal investigation by the Health and Human Services’ Inspector General.”
The outlet reported that a fifteen-year-old girl named Evelyn, who identifies as “nonbinary” and goes by the name “Enfys,” was scheduled for a double mastectomy at the children’s hospital, but the shutdown protected her from this body-mutilating surgery.
For now, at least, this teenage girl, caught in “transgender” ideology, will not have perfectly healthy organs cut off.
These “gender clinics” have joined at least 33 hospitals and medical facilities across the country that stopped treating confused minors with destructive transgender procedures in 2025, reports Do No Harm, a pro-child group of medical professionals, patients and policy makers.
Many hospitals have said they are “pausing” such interventions, so that a change in federal policies means they would again start sterilizing and mutilating minors.
“Gender clinics” began backing away from attempting to make children look like the opposite sex after President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order on January 28, 2025, Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.
The order explained the need to end the use of destructive puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries for children with sexual identity confusion:
The executive order went on to explain federal policy toward these damaging medical interventions:
Every federal agency “that provides research or education grants to medical institutions, including medical schools and hospitals” was directed to “immediately take appropriate steps to ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”
The executive order was enough to bring almost immediate shutdowns of children’s gender clinics, including at Children’s Hospital, in Washington, D.C.; Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; and Virginia Commonwealth University Health & Children’s Hospital of Richmond.
The executive order also directed the Department of Justice to investigate “any entity that may be misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi followed that directive with an April 2025 memorandum to DOJ agencies, including the FBI, titled “Preventing the Mutilation of American Children.”
DOJ agencies were told to investigate groups, including medical professionals, for “junk science and false claims about the effects of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ to justify the barbaric practice of surgically and chemically maiming and sterilizing children.”
That led the FBI, in June 2025, to post an announcement asking people to “report tips of any hospitals, clinics, or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children.”
Those further actions by the federal agencies led to even more medical facilities halting the mutilation of minors.
Nineteen states and radical LGBT activist groups like Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) have filed three lawsuits attacking Trump’s executive order. Although judges have blocked enforcement of the order, the DOJ continues to investigate hospitals and doctors who harm children.
While the Trump administration and 25 states have taken action to prevent these harmful medical interventions, the opposition to safeguarding children demonstrates that Christians and conservatives must continue to work against transgender ideology.
As Christians, we must have compassion on children — and adults — struggling with sexual identity confusion. But true compassion means protecting those struggling from harmful and damaging drugs, hormones and surgeries.
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