Overview

• Children’s Hospital will shut its Center for Transyouth Health and Development on July 22, 2025.
• Federal agencies including the Department of Justice, Health and Human Services and CMS warned of potential civil and criminal actions against providers of gender-affirming care for minors.
• The center served nearly 3,000 trans youth with puberty blockers, hormone treatments and surgical referrals under public insurance.
• Executives warned that sustaining the program would endanger care for hundreds of thousands of other children relying on the safety-net hospital.
• Patients’ families and LGBTQ civil rights groups have condemned the closure and are seeking new treatment options.