lawsuit<\/a> against Rady Children\u2019s Health, the parent company of CHOC and Rady Children\u2019s Hospital San Diego, that sought to restore gender-affirming care at the hospital system. CHOC and Rady have pointed to recent actions by the federal government to restrict trans youth\u2019s access to gender-affirming hormones and surgeries.<\/p>\n Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n
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Does this affect other hospitals?: The ruling only applies to Rady Children\u2019s Health.<\/p>\n
What the hospital is saying: \u201cWe respect the court’s directives and will abide by them,\u201d a spokesperson for CHOC wrote in a statement to LAist. \u201cWe are not able to comment further on active litigation at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trans advocacy organizations react: Brit Cervantes of the gender-affirming care provider organization OCGAPNET said this decision underscores that the federal government\u2019s actions are being challenged. Kanan Durham of the Huntington Beach-based nonprofit told LAist called the ruling a \u201csmall win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: Gender-affirming hormone treatments are available for people under 19 through at least March 10 at Children\u2019s Hospital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,36652,4297,83662],"class_list":["post-175446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-choc","tag-gender-affirming-care","tag-rady-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175446","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=175446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}