{"id":232020,"date":"2025-10-17T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:47:09","slug":"ending-gender-affirming-care-for-children-is-embarrassing-university-of-michigan-regent-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232020\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending gender-affirming care for children is \u2018embarrassing,\u2019 University of Michigan regent says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Sept. 2025 UM Board of Regents Meeting\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GEXLGXLKOVBU3AZYCHQW3HRQJI.jpg\"\/>Board of Regents member Paul Brown listens to a speaker during a board meeting in this file photo. The Northern Michigan Democrat spoke out this week in Flint on the university&#8217;s decision to end gender-affirming care at its health system.Abra Richardson | MLive.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"22IPXKVE45CDVB2VSP7YS273PQ\">FLINT, MI \u2014 A University of Michigan regent publicly called out the university Thursday for its decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/ann-arbor\/2025\/08\/michigan-medicine-to-end-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-amid-trump-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/ann-arbor\/2025\/08\/michigan-medicine-to-end-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-amid-trump-investigation.html\">halt gender-affirming care<\/a> for patients under 19 at its health system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NVHN5LQNB5G3LCFQUN55TVXXMQ\">Paul Brown, a Northern Michigan Democrat first elected in 2018, spoke out during the Oct. 16 UM Board of Regents meeting at the Flint campus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Board of Regents member Paul Brown listens to a speaker during a board meeting in this file photo.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-232020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}