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Even in Blue States, Hospitals Have Continued To Drop Gender-Affirming Care for Youths
KFF Health News ^ | June 24, 2026 | Karen Brown, New England Public Media

Posted on 06/29/2026 7:48:42 AM PDT by fwdude

One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy — and would be using he/him pronouns.

“OK, cool,” his mother, J, remembered saying. (J asked to be identified by only her first initial, and Bug by his nickname, because the family fears harassment.)

“‘What do you need to be supported?’” she recalled asking next. “He asked to get healthcare.”

This was the kind of moment J had been anticipating since the family had moved earlier that year from Texas to Massachusetts, for its more liberal and inclusive politics. She felt confident they could find the right medical experts. But she hadn’t realized that access to gender-affirming treatment could disappear even when their state’s laws and leaders supported it.

Individual hospitals all over the U.S., in red and blue states, have responded to President Donald Trump’s attacks on transgender healthcare by deciding to withdraw care on their own. At least 20 hospitals did so in the first months of the Trump administration as it threatened to pull back federal funding or initiate fraud or wrongful-claim investigations, and such services have continued to drop off since.

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To: fwdude

Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Their desire for attention is more important than the lives of their children.


21 posted on 06/29/2026 8:26:29 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Our long national nightmare is over!)
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To: Freee-dame

I call it “same-sex mirage,” because it is a fake of the real thing.


22 posted on 06/29/2026 8:27:32 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

And then there is calling Obama’s hideous building in Chicago his presidential “Library“. It is not a traditional presidential library as his original documents are all somewhere else unavailable to the public. Only Digital copies, which we know can be manipulated, will be available in his presidential CENTER.


23 posted on 06/29/2026 8:29:14 AM PDT by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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To: fwdude

“Bug, who was assigned female at birth…”

It wasn’t “assigned”. It was identified.

Stop ceding the language to these freaks.

L


24 posted on 06/29/2026 8:29:25 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: fwdude
...gender-affirming treatment...

Lets call it what it is; genital mutilation.

25 posted on 06/29/2026 8:30:22 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: fwdude

Gender Affirming Care! That sounds so much nicer than Delusion Pandering Mutilation, does it not?


26 posted on 06/29/2026 8:30:28 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

And then there is calling Obama’s hideous building in Chicago his presidential “Library“. It is not a traditional presidential library as his original documents are all somewhere else unavailable to the public. Only Digital copies, which we know can be manipulated, will be available in his presidential CENTER.

One of the most ridiculous is “gender affirming care”. Mutilating the genitals by surgery or the entire body by pharmaceuticals is the ultimate in “gender denying care”.


27 posted on 06/29/2026 8:32:10 AM PDT by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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To: fwdude

This little girl would be better off in bad foster care than she is with her parents.


28 posted on 06/29/2026 8:35:19 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

She got this idea from somewhere, probably the public indoctrination center who’s been baby sitting her for 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, 10 months a year.


29 posted on 06/29/2026 8:47:45 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

One thing hospitals know more than politicians....
Lawsuits can mean the end of your career.


30 posted on 06/29/2026 8:50:13 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: fwdude

“okay, cool” ? said his mother?
what the hell is wrong with people


31 posted on 06/29/2026 9:05:38 AM PDT by ronniesgal (can FR please get a "like" button and a "block" button? Please.)
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To: libstripper

winning the genetic lottery!


32 posted on 06/29/2026 9:06:37 AM PDT by ronniesgal (can FR please get a "like" button and a "block" button? Please.)
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To: fwdude

My guess is she got it from her mother who was willing to move half way across the country to get her daughter mutilated.


33 posted on 06/29/2026 9:07:48 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: fwdude
"...who was assigned female at birth..."

Who was OBSERVED to be female at birth.

On what basis was the so called "assignment" made? The basis was an observation.

34 posted on 06/29/2026 9:16:34 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: fwdude

This is pathetic. Child abuse through parental indoctrination.


35 posted on 06/29/2026 9:30:49 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: fwdude; lightman; Navy Patriot

......transgender healthcare .........

NO! It’s mutilation!!


36 posted on 06/29/2026 10:17:46 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: fwdude

Any news article that doesn’t put “gender affirming care” in quotes is not to be trusted.


37 posted on 06/29/2026 12:17:40 PM PDT by misterdarcey (Abandon all nuance, ye who enter here.)
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To: fwdude

Parents yes, but have you noticed, it’s always the mother? I have yet to read of a case where the father was the one driving this travesty of parenthood.


38 posted on 06/29/2026 3:21:35 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: fwdude

It is gender denying non Care.


39 posted on 06/29/2026 9:02:08 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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