"What the hospital did: Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego announced last month that it would be closing its Center for Gender-Affirming Care and would no longer provide gender-affirming care to people under the age of 19. This came after the presidential administration pledged to end grants and cut Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements to hospitals that provide trans health care."
"What the case was about: A woman who got a mastectomy as a teen - recommended by her psychiatrist after she discussed feelings of gender dysphoria with him around her breasts - later regretted it and detransitioned. She sued and even got help from the WPATH - a medical organization devoted to trans health care - claiming that her doctors did not adequately inform her of the risks of the surgery."
Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego closed its Center for Gender-Affirming Care and stopped providing gender-affirming care to people under 19 following federal pledges to end grants and cut Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements to hospitals that provide trans health care. Hospitals face increasing legal pressure, and a lawsuit over a hospital's blanket ban could become a model for similar challenges nationwide. A woman who received a mastectomy as a teen, recommended by her psychiatrist amid feelings of breast-related gender dysphoria, later detransitioned and sued alleging inadequate informed consent with WPATH involvement. A narrow ruling led the ASPS and AMA to no longer recommend gender-affirming surgery for trans youth under 19, and conservative media have called the case a "landmark." Such procedures are already relatively rare.
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