Even in Blue States, Hospitals Have Continued To Drop Gender-Affirming Care for Youths By Karen Brown, New England Public Media June 24, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/gender-affirming-care-trump-hospitals-transgender-massachusetts/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-94nr7DQ1KCs4dARAfTKzI4WTjSzRnaxO8LCCUcCyTX950a79EH-5pYzDhMsgWw3pdmiidPnLnxTsOmrZreSqZ1PMeGeA&_hsmi=425307548&utm_content=425307548&utm_source=hs_email KFF Health News: Even In Blue States, Hospitals Have Continued To Drop Gender-Affirming Care For Youths One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy — and would be using he/him pronouns. “OK, cool,” his mother, J, remembered saying. (J asked to be identified by only her first initial, and Bug by his nickname, because the family fears harassment.) “‘What do you need to be supported?’” she recalled asking next. “He asked to get healthcare.” (Brown, 6/24)