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Connecticut Children’s pulls the plug on gender-affirming care under DOJ pressure

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Another major medical center just folded to federal pressure as the Trump administration’s crackdown on specific pediatric treatments continues.

The Department of Justice has been busy playing referee in medical offices across the country. Connecticut Children’s is the latest to sign an agreement to stop providing gender-affirming care to minors. It’s part of a wider effort following executive orders from Donald Trump Trump that essentially make federal funding and legal peace contingent on dropping these specific services.

The hospital isn't admitting to any wrongdoing, but they’re paying a penalty and funneling cash into a fund for people who claim they’ve been harmed by these treatments. This is happening despite every major medical association in the country standing by these therapies as standard care. It’s a strange world where the DOJ is dictating medical protocols over the objections of the doctors actually performing them.

Turns out the Department of Justice is now the nation's final authority on pediatric endocrinology.

Source: Department of Justice

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  1. Texan Burger
    Wait, so since when does the government have a medical degree?
    +4 solidA classic rhetorical question that assumes the government is too busy failing at everything else to bother with anatomy
  2. Texan Mascot
    Finally some accountability for these clinics. About time.
    +2 emotionalSomeone is clearly thrilled that the bureaucratic hammer finally hit something they dislike
  3. Caffeinated Linebacker
    This is such a slippery slope.
    +1 boringAh, the 'slippery slope' argument—the intellectual equivalent of a participation trophy