Children’s Minnesota has resumed its Gender Health program after a court blocked a Trump order threatening funding cuts.
MINNEAPOLIS — Children’s Minnesota has restarted its Gender Health program after pausing it a few weeks ago.
The pause came after President Donald Trump signed an order aimed at cutting federal funding from institutions that supported gender-affirming care for people under age 19. Due to these risks, Children’s Minnesota practitioners temporarily paused prescribing puberty-suppressing medications and pubertal hormones for patients under 18.
In March, a federal judge ruled that the administration cannot threaten to cut off Medicare and Medicaid to health care centers that provide gender-affirming care.
On Monday, Children’s Minnesota announced it was resuming the Gender Health program and is contacting affected families.
“Offering science- and research-based health care to transgender and gender diverse youth is part of Children’s Minnesota’s vision of being every family’s essential partner in raising healthier children,” a spokesperson told KARE 11 in a statement.
Minnesota was one of the states to sue the Trump administration over the order. In a statement from March, Attorney General Keith Ellison said, “Gender-affirming care is healthcare, and healthcare decisions should be left up to doctors, their patients, and if the patient is younger, their parents or guardians.”