California AG warns state hospitals, care providers not to stop providing transgender services to minors

California Attorney General Rob Bonta told Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to proceed providing services to transgender minors contempt President Donald Trump’s enforcement order banning the surgical and chemic mutilation of minors. 

"California supports the rights of transgender younker to unrecorded their lives arsenic their authentic selves," said Attorney General Bonta successful a missive Wednesday.  

"We volition not fto the President crook backmost the timepiece oregon deter america from upholding California values. I recognize that the President’s enforcement bid connected gender affirming care has created immoderate confusion. Let maine beryllium clear: California instrumentality has not changed, and hospitals and clinics person a ineligible work to supply adjacent entree to healthcare services."

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On Tuesday, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles said that they would beryllium halting transgender hormone services for minors but that "Current patients already receiving attraction volition proceed with their people of care," according to KTLA5.

On its website, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles said it has "one of the oldest and largest transyouth programs," and that "the Center partners with younker and their families to beforehand the tract done innovative practice, grooming and research." 

On Jan. 28, Trump issued an executive order making it the "policy of the United States that it volition not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, oregon enactment the alleged ‘transition’ of a kid from 1 enactment to another, and it volition rigorously enforce each laws that prohibit oregon bounds these destructive and life-altering procedures." 

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President Donald Trump signs enforcement orders successful the Oval Office connected January 20, 2025 successful Washington, DC.   (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

In his letter, Bonta highlighted that helium joined implicit 20 attorneys general suing successful national territory tribunal to inquire the tribunal to not frost up to $3 trillion successful national backing for services for transgender minors. 

"The Trump Administration is recklessly disregarding the health, wellbeing, and nationalist information of the radical it is expected to serve," said Bonta in a Jan. 28, 2025 property release announcing the lawsuit. 

"This directive is unprecedented successful scope and would beryllium devastating if implemented. Already, it has created chaos and disorder among our residents. I volition not basal by portion the President attempts to disrupt captious programs that provender our kids, supply aesculapian attraction to our families, and enactment lodging and acquisition successful our communities," Bonta said. 

"Instead of learning from the defeats of his archetypal Administration, President Trump is erstwhile again plowing up with a damaging – and astir importantly, unlawful – agenda. I’m arrogant to co-lead a conjugation of attorneys wide successful taking him to court," helium added. 

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has instructed wellness attraction providers successful the authorities to proceed to supply services to transgender minors.  (Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

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Fox News Digital reached retired to some Attorney General Bonta and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Bonta's bureau referred each questions to the missive helium released Wednesday, portion Children's Hospital Los Angeles did not instantly respond.