Executive orders are not laws. The hospital is not obligated to follow it; they want to follow it.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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Trump’s executive order banning all federal support for gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19, which among many things, threatens to withhold federal funds from hospitals that provide such care.
The family says they were told during a meeting with surgical center staff Tuesday morning that if the hospital lost access to those federal funds, other children’s care would be at risk, and the decision was made with the entire community's interest in mind.
The hospital has a method it can use if it wants to avoid losing access to federal funding without having to violate state law by pulling gender-affirming care. It can file a lawsuit in federal court and ask for a restraining order on enforcement of the executive order. That's the decision to make if the entire community's interest was in mind.
Multiple parties are already doing that, but until the outcome of those lawsuits is known, they would still be taking that risk. Filing a lawsuit is not a magic wand.
Why is a child getting that surgery anyway? Shouldn’t it be done once they’re fully mature
Dr. Fucking Livingstone, I presume?!?
Do you walk on an airplane and give tips to the pilot too?
The kid wants the surgery. His parents want him to have the surgery. His doctors want him to have the surgery. He's been through the not-easy gauntlet of psych evals and counseling. His insurance has approved the surgery. The hospital schedules the surgery...
And then Donald Trump overrules the kid, the parents, the doctors, the psych evals and counseling, the insurance company, and the hospital.
It is allowed with parental consent. They would have no issue doing the surgery if the boy complained of back issues due to his boobs.