Five teens and children who say they were forced off of their gender-affirming care treatment plans when UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh ceased such treatment for those 18 and younger earlier this year filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, alleging the denial amounts to sex- and disability-based discrimination.

The sealed complaint was filed Tuesday by the Women’s Law Project and Philadelphia-based Berger Montague on behalf of five patients who’d previously received gender-affirming care at Children’s Hospital: Three adolescents who are under 18 and represented by their parents, in addition to two 18-year-old patients.

Attorneys said the complaint alleges the hospital continues to offer the same treatments, including puberty blockers and hormone thera

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