Q&A: How institutions have responded to the gender-affirming care executive order, one week later A specialist in adolescent medicine assesses the impact on both patients and research

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/assessing-impact-trump-executive-order-gender-affirming-care-under-19/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--gWt9OXqtNSnuM4LcSVhh3zVmuLwCejwcjZxDp1KTxKB6DQplmZyhtMjIMMIaBXLKXPujB_OqWwBTYzbBIxz9LH0lXCg&_hsmi=345746664&utm_content=345746664&utm_source=hs_email How institutions have responded to the gender-affirming care EO Last week, Donald Trump issued an executive order that aims to withdraw federal funds from any hospital that provides gender-affirming care to people under age 19. Yesterday, families of transgender youth filed a lawsuit, asking a federal court to put the order on hold. “People need to recognize what this administration is willing to sacrifice in order to accomplish its ideological bent towards transgender people,” Meredithe McNamara, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale, said to me in an interview yesterday. “This administration is willing to turn off the lights in every children's hospital, every neonatal ICU, and every pediatric emergency room, in every cancer ward, and pull funding so that hospitals will systematically deprive a very small group of patients health care.” I talked with McNamara about the implications of the order and how institutions have reacted to it so far. Read our conversation.