Corewell Health is the first state’s medical system to announce that it limits the care of the sexes for minor patients. It will no longer allow minors to seek such treatment to start new hormonal therapeutic patterns; Minor patients already receiving hormone therapy will be allowed to continue their treatments.
The moratorium comes following President Donald Trump‘s executive decree This threatens to remove federal funding from hospitals that provide such treatments to people under 19.
In a declaration provided to the free press, Corewell said: “For the moment, we are not starting new therapeutic patterns for minor patients looking for gender assertions. We do not perform surgery of surgery Gender assertion on minors.
Corewell consists of two divisions. Corewell Health East includes the Corewell University Hospital William Beaumont by Royal Oak, the Beaumont Troy Hospital in Corewell Health and other former Beaumont establishments. Corewell Health West includes Corewell Health Helen Devos children’s hospital as well as Corewell Health Blodgett Hospital and Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital.
Although the health system policy covers the entire Corewell system, affirmative gender care for minors have generally not been provided in Corewell East facilities, a spokesman for Corewell said.
Other state hospital systems have not commented if they changed the care they provide. The Detroit Medical Center did not respond to requests for comments. Henry Ford Health System is not either. Michigan Medicine, the Michigan University Medical Center this week said: “The University of Michigan health teams assess the potential impact of this decree on our health services and the communities we serve. Our priority of priority offering high quality care and accessible to our patients while ensuring compliance with the last law. “”
Meanwhile, Friday, Michigan’s prosecutor General Dana Nessel told hospitals to continue to provide treatment, affirming in a statement: “Refusing Helathcare services to a class of individuals according to their protected status , such as the restraint of the availability of the services of transgender persons according to their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgenre Individuals can constitute discrimination under the law of Michigan. »»
At the end of the line, she said: “If you are looking for health care, continue to do so. If you provide health care in accordance with Michigan law, keep doing so. »»
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The transgender population of the country is small: around 1.6 million people aged 13 and over identify as transgender, according to the Williams Institute of the UCLA, a research center focused on gender identity, sexual orientation and public policies. In 2023, around 3% of secondary school students identified as transgender, according to a study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention American.
Young transgender people, for lack of acceptance and stigma, are more likely to fight against depression and suicidal behavior, and more likely to feel violence and homeless that the peers who identify with the sex assigned to them at birth.
According to a Study published in 2022 By the Journal of the American Medical Association, young people who received gender assertions were 60% less likely to feel depression and 73% less likely to feel suicidal ideas or behaviors than young people who have not received sex care.
For transgender minors, affirmative gender care generally involve Publishing presidents monitoring hormone therapy. A study by the Harvard School of Public Health revealed that Gender statement surgery is rarely carried out on minors.
Trump’s executive order is underway disputed before the Federal Court.
The free press staff writer Kristen Jordan Shamus contributed to this report.
Contact Georgea Kovanis: gkovanis@freepress.com.