{"id":159823,"date":"2026-02-02T03:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159823\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T03:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:45:12","slug":"california-ag-sues-san-diego-hospital-for-ending-gender-treatment-for-minors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159823\/","title":{"rendered":"California AG sues San Diego hospital for ending gender treatment for minors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against a San Diego<\/a> hospital over its move to end gender transition treatment for minors to comply with the Trump administration’s demands.<\/p>\n

Bonta is arguing that Rady Children’s Hospital violated the terms of its merger agreement with Children’s Hospital of Orange County by halting transgender-related treatment for people under 18-years-old, according to KCRA3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rady said the issue began when the federal government threatened to strip funding and shut down the hospital for offering gender transition treatment to children, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

MAJOR CALIFORNIA HEALTH SYSTEM ENDING TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES FOR MINORS ACROSS ITS NETWORK<\/a><\/p>\n

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against a San Diego hospital over its move to end gender transition treatment for minors. (Reuters\/Fred Greaves\/File Photo)<\/p>\n

The hospital agreed to the Trump administration’s demands and announced the closure of its gender transition care center, prompting California’s legal challenge<\/a>, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Bonta’s lawsuit alleges that the hospital violated the terms of its merger agreement, which included a commitment to continue making gender transition care available to minors.<\/p>\n

“The recent changes to our gender-affirming care services reflect a very difficult decision,” the hospital said in a statement to KCRA3.<\/p>\n

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta is arguing that Rady Children’s Hospital violated the terms of its merger agreement with Children’s Hospital of Orange County. (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“That decision was guided by our responsibilities as a nonprofit pediatric healthcare system to continue serving all children and families,” the statement continued.<\/p>\n

This comes as the Trump administration continues to target facilities that offer transgender-related treatment to people under 18 after President Donald Trump’s<\/a> executive order a year ago calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to protect children from “chemical and surgical mutilation.”<\/p>\n

Last year, California was part of a group of 19 Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C., that filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a declaration that seeks to restrict gender transition treatment for minors.<\/p>\n

NEARLY 20 STATES SUE HHS OVER DECLARATION TO RESTRICT GENDER TRANSITION TREATMENT FOR MINORS<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rady Children’s Hospital said the federal government threatened to strip funding and shut down the hospital for offering gender transition treatment to children. (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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That declaration from HHS described treatments such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender transition surgeries as unsafe and ineffective for children experiencing gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n

It also warned doctors they could be excluded from federal health programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, if they provide these treatments to minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,33176,536,457,49277,13,1181],"class_list":["post-159823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-culture-trends","tag-donald-trump","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-health-care-healthy-living","tag-politics","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}