In August, Yale New Haven Health confirmed it will no longer provide medication treatment as part of gender-affirming care for patients 19 and under. The announcement landed less than 24 hours after Connecticut Children’s Medical Center said it is “winding down” its entire gender-affirming care program for minors. What looks, on paper, like an administrative shift is, in practice, a rupture in care that will reverberate through the lives of trans youth, their parents, and the clinicians who have devoted their careers to evidence-based, family-centered medicine.

This is devastating to patients, their families and providers.

Neither hospital is acting because the science changed. Major medical bodies, from the American Academy of Pediatrics to the Pediatric Endocrine Society, continue

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