Sep 17, 2026 · 58 min · 10 segments
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So one of the big events or one of the big stories last week was the federal pressure on hospitals providing transgender youth care.
And even in those areas where it is more supportive of transgender youth care, because most of them are funded federally, they do have an impact on whether or not they're going to provide those services, and if so, how much.
So specifically, they're talking about the puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgical interventions to minors.
But one of the hospitals, Mount Sinai, was also dedicated or has dedicated $2 million to medical care For people, the government says experienced harmful consequences from the treatment they received as minors.
So significance, it goes well beyond the individual hospitals, even when this, well, like I said, the states that permit it, they're pulling back only because of the federal funding could be pulled away from them.
biggest thing about this is Mount Sinai is in New York, which is a little bit more liberal than Texas.
We've also seen it with the Cleveland Clinic and Connecticut Children's Hospital.
So they're forcing these children's hospitals to establish these federal programs where they will not get federal funding if they do puberty blockers or do any kind of gender affirming care for pediatric patients.
And they have to dedicate a certain amount of money to do people that says that they were transitioning when they didn't want to.
I mean, that's or that they had some kind of like thing where they've decided that they don't want to anymore.
So one of the big events or one of the big stories last week was the federal pressure on hospitals providing transgender youth care.
And even in those areas where it is more supportive of transgender youth care, because most of them are funded federally, they do have an impact on whether or not they're going to provide those services, and if so, how much.
So specifically, they're talking about the puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgical interventions to minors.
But one of the hospitals, Mount Sinai, was also dedicated or has dedicated $2 million to medical care For people, the government says experienced harmful consequences from the treatment they received as minors.
So significance, it goes well beyond the individual hospitals, even when this, well, like I said, the states that permit it, they're pulling back only because of the federal funding could be pulled away from them.
biggest thing about this is Mount Sinai is in New York, which is a little bit more liberal than Texas.
We've also seen it with the Cleveland Clinic and Connecticut Children's Hospital.
So they're forcing these children's hospitals to establish these federal programs where they will not get federal funding if they do puberty blockers or do any kind of gender affirming care for pediatric patients.
And they have to dedicate a certain amount of money to do people that says that they were transitioning when they didn't want to.
I mean, that's or that they had some kind of like thing where they've decided that they don't want to anymore.
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