Kaiser Permanente has announced it will halt surgical gender-affirming care for transgender minors starting next month, citing risks related to the current legal landscape. Families, like Calder Storm's, are left seeking alternatives, having believed Kaiser was a safe option. Non-surgical gender-affirming care will still be available for minors, and all care for transgender adults is unaffected. Health care professionals, like Nurse Lady Rainsard, advocate for continued care, asserting that medical decisions should be made by providers rather than influenced by political pressures.
Calder Storm expressed his frustration, stating, "Kaiser was supposed to be our safe haven. Everyone in the trans community thought we had the best chance possible within the Kaiser system."
Lady Rainsard voiced opposition to the decision, declaring, "Medical providers, not politicians, know what's best for our patients. We deem it a much greater risk to cave to this kind of government overreach."
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