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‘Donald Trump Saved My Son’: Hospitals Close Trans Clinics after Executive Order

February 4, 2025

Elections have consequences. No one understands that better than Jeff Younger, whose wife began claiming their son identified as a girl, won custody, and started administering puberty blockers. Thanks to a new executive order defunding and threatening to prosecute anyone who carries out transgender procedures on a minor, hospitals nationwide have shut down their pediatric gender facilities — spurring a prominent Democrat to insist they must continue pushing transgender treatments or she will prosecute them.

President Trump signed an executive order “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” which called transgender procedures on minors “a stain on our nation,” last Tuesday. It orders the Secretary of Health and Human Services to “take all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation” of anyone under the age of 19, foreshadows civil and criminal prosecutions, and cuts off federal funding for any institution that continues to carry out those procedures on minors.

“President Donald J. Trump saved my son,” said Younger that evening.

Younger’s wife, Anne Georgulas, claimed their son James, then seven, began identifying as a girl — but only when he was in her presence. Younger, who is an Eastern Orthodox Christian and opposes transgenderism, produced videos of his son identifying as a boy. In time, Georgulas won custody of the boy, took him to California, and announced he now identified as a girl named “Luna.”

“My insane ex-wife put my son in her clinic. He’s now chemically castrated,” said Younger. But Trump’s executive order has had ramifications across the country, as facilities in deep-blue states have begun winding down transgender procedures for minors.

Pediatric Gender Clinics from New York to Colorado ‘Pausing’ Transgender Procedures Thanks to Trump EO

President Trump’s January 28 executive order had near-immediate impact on the transgender industry’s exploitation of young people.

Just two days later, Children’s National Hospital (CNH) in Washington, D.C., announced, “[W]e are currently pausing all puberty blockers and hormone therapy prescriptions for transgender youth patients, per the guidelines in the Executive Order issued by the White House.”

In the neighboring state, the Virginia Commonwealth University (“VCU Health”), University of Virginia, and Children’s Hospital of Richmond have all halted transgender procedures for minors. “VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU have suspended gender-affirming medications and gender-affirming surgical procedures for patients under 19 years old in response to an Executive Order issued by the White House on January 28, 2025, and related state guidance received by VCU on January 30, 2025,” declared VCU Health.

UVA Health issued a statement last Friday, saying it had “suspended all gender-affirming care for patients under 19 years of age” in order “to ensure we are always delivering care in accordance with the law,” specifically “the recent federal executive order and related Commonwealth of Virginia Office of the Attorney General guidance.”

‘The Chemical and Surgical Mutilation of Children Must Stop Immediately’: Virginia AG Jason Miyares

The legal guidance the institutions referenced came from Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R), who sent the institutions a memo on January 30 ordering that they comply with federal law — which the state office would enforce to its greatest ability.

“The chemical and surgical mutilation of children must stop immediately,” including “genital mutilation,” wrote Miyares. The Trump administration’s actions, and any legislation that codifies it into law, “could create significant liability for those institutions and individuals who perform and are involved with the chemical and surgical mutilation of children in addition to the exposure they already face under existing law.”

“Any institution that continues to engage in such mutilation unacceptably and unjustifiably endangers not only itself and the Commonwealth, but also the vulnerable children of this Commonwealth,” added Miyares. “[M]y office will be closely monitoring this issue and the actions of the Commonwealth’s agencies.”

The two facilities announced they would stop injecting children the same day.

Virginia-based transgender radicals raged at the hospitals’ decision to comply with the law. Side by Side, a Richmond-based transgender organization that promotes transgender extremism to between 60 to 80 minors every week, mourned the loss of “critical partners and the primary providers of” transgender procedures.

The Trump executive order alone seems to have swayed hospitals in numerous Democrat-run states to end the use of puberty blockers on minors. Denver Health and the University of Colorado’s system, UCHealth, announced, “As a result of the recent executive order regarding gender affirming care and funding for health care providers, gender affirming surgical services at UCHealth facilities will now only be available for patients age 19 and older” in order “to ensure that our organization complies with all applicable laws.”

Denver Health, which receives $89 million a year from the federal government not including Medicaid funding, also cited the loss of federal funds as a motivation. “These programs represent a significant portion of Denver Health’s funding, and the executive order specifically states that should we not comply, our participation in these programs is at risk,” the group declared.

Despite Democrats’ objections, Trump’s order has impacted the most liberal areas of America. Although it has made no official statement, NYU Langone Health in New York City quietly began canceling minors’ appointments for transgender procedures after the executive order, sources confirmed to The New York Times.

Potentially more transgender businesses will follow. The Carilion Clinic, based in Roanoke, said on Friday that it is “committed to ensuring that we’re always delivering care in accordance with the law” and is “reviewing the latest federal directive to determine potential next steps.”

New York AG Tells Hospitals: Defy Order, Keep Carrying Out Transgender Procedures on Minors

The setbacks faced by radical transgender activists, who fund the Democratic Party, has caused some elected officials to lash out. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sent a letter to state hospitals instructing them to continue carrying out transgender procedures on minors, or risk prosecution by her office.

“Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York State laws,” wrote James. “Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law.”

The legal theory propounded by James, who campaigned on a promise to imprison now-President Donald Trump and sued pro-life pregnancy resource centers unsuccessfully, claims that anyone who has a religious or conscience-based objection to carrying out transgender procedures violates the civil rights of a protected class. The Left applies the same theory to abortion.

It is not clear if the hospitals in question will fully comply with the executive order. For instance, CNH’s website states, “We do not provide gender-affirming surgery for anyone under the age of 18,” while the executive order sets the age of minors at 19. It promises patients “the same uninterrupted access to mental health counseling, social support, and holistic and respectful care” and is “working directly with patients and providers to ensure every patient has access to the information and support services they need.”

And CNH still advertises its “Gender Development Program,” including its “Youth Pride Clinic” (led by Lawrence D’Angelo), which boasts of being ‘one of the few clinics in the nation providing comprehensive primary and mental healthcare to LGBTQ youth and young adults between the ages of 12 to 22.”

Some may be previewing future lines of legal attack, as well. Denver Health falsely asserted in its statement that Trump’s executive order “will impact gender-diverse youth, including increased risk of depression, anxiety and suicidality.” In fact, numerous studies have found higher rates of depression and suicide after gender transition. A German-based clinic that carries out transgender procedures found that transgender surgeries left people feeling lonelier and more depressed than before the medical intervention.

‘The Fight Is Not Over’: Younger

Perhaps most importantly for Younger, the Trump-Vance administration promised in its executive order to “take appropriate action to end child-abusive practices by so-called sanctuary States” such as Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) California “that facilitate stripping custody from parents who support the healthy development of their own children, including by considering the application of the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act and recognized constitutional rights.”

After their battle over James began, Georgulas took the boy from Texas to California.

“I will use all possible avenues to get my son off chemical castration drugs,” vowed Younger. “The fight is not over.”

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.



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