Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan’s medical center, said Monday it would no longer offer gender-affirming care to patients younger than 19, in line with one of President Trump’s executive orders.
“In response to unprecedented legal and regulatory threats to our clinicians and our institution, we have made the difficult decision to stop prescribing puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones for patients under age 19,” the hospital’s transgender services webpage now reads.
“We understand how impactful these changes will be to many of you. Your safety and well-being is important to us, and we are committed to supporting you during this challenging time,” the page adds.
Michigan Medicine will continue serving transgender youth, it said, by “providing all appropriate care other than puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones.” The policy change won’t affect care for patients age 19 and older.
In a statement, the University of Michigan’s public affairs department said Michigan Medicine was one of several institutions to have received a subpoena from the Justice Department as part of the federal government’s investigation into gender-affirming care for minors. The department said in July it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics “involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children” in investigations of “healthcare fraud, false statements, and more.”
A federal subpoena sent in June to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and made public in a court filing last week demanded confidential patient information and “every writing or record of whatever type” from doctors providing hormones, puberty blockers and gender transition surgeries to minors. The request asks for information dating back to January 2020, before gender-affirming care was banned anywhere in the U.S.
Arkansas adopted the first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors in April 2021, more than a year later.
Michigan Medicine is one of nearly two dozen hospitals to have suspended transition-related care for youth since Trump signed an executive order in January to end federal support. In July, the White House touted a list of 21 hospitals that have paused gender-affirming care for patients under 19.
A federal judge in Maryland in February blocked Trump’s Jan. 28 order, which seeks to withhold funding for hospitals that provide gender transition care to minors, ruling that a group of transgender teens and LGBTQ organizations were likely to succeed in arguing the order — and another prohibiting the government from promoting “gender ideology” — is without authority and amounts to illegal and unconstitutional discrimination.
More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general sued the Trump administration this month over the executive order and the Justice Department’s subpoenas to hospitals and investigations into gender-affirming care.
A spokesperson for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), who joined the lawsuit, did not immediately return a request for comment on Michigan Medicine’s decision to suspend transition-related care for youth.
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