Q&A: How institutions have responded to the gender-affirming care executive order, one week later

One week into his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order that aims to withdraw federal funds from any hospital that provides gender-affirming care to people under age 19. The order immediately drew criticism from clinicians, families, and legal advocates for transgender youth. On Tuesday, families of transgender youth filed a federal lawsuit asking for an order on hold.

“People need to recognize what this administration is willing to sacrifice in order to accomplish its ideological bent towards transgender people,” Meredithe McNamara, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale, said in an interview with STAT. “This administration is willing to turn off the lights in every children’s hospital, every neonatal ICU, and every pediatric emergency room, in every cancer ward, and pull funding so that hospitals will systematically deprive a very small group of patients health care.”

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