This week, the University of Michigan disclosed that its hospital would cease providing sex change medications to minors, responding to pressure from the Trump administration.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in July it had issued over 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics engaged in performing transgender medical procedures on minors. Michigan Medicine confirmed this Monday that they were among those subpoenaed.
“Considering the investigation and increasing external threats and risks, we have decided to stop offering gender affirming hormonal therapies and puberty blockers to minors,” noted Michigan Medicine officials in a statement.
The statement added, “We understand the significant implications of this decision for our patients and community. We are committed to supporting all those affected and will continuously ensure the well-being of our patients, families, and staff. We appreciate our clinicians’ tireless commitment to offering the best care and all team members for their dedication as we adapt together.”
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DOJ Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle celebrated the news as a “massive win for children’s safety and for common sense.”
“For months, the Justice Department has been scrutinizing hospitals and health systems involved in surgeries and chemical treatments marketed as ‘gender-affirming care’ for children. Today, the University of Michigan declared they ‘will no longer provide gender affirming hormonal therapies and puberty blocker medications for minors,’” Mizelle stated on X.
“This is a SIGNIFICANT victory for child safety and rationality. But it isn’t unprecedented. According to ABC, the University of Michigan is one of over 20 hospitals and health systems that have limited or ceased ‘gender-affirming care’ since January,” he added. “Under [President Trump] and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s leadership, we’ll persist in defending children from exploitation by health systems motivated by radical gender ideology, profit, or both.”
Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called the University of Michigan’s decision “cowardly” and doubled down on sex-mutilating drugs for minors.
“The announcement from the University of Michigan that they will no longer provide their transgender patients with all of the healthcare options available is shameful, dangerous, and potentially illegal,” Nessel said in a press release on Tuesday. “This cowardly acquiescence to political pressure from this president and his administration is not what patients have come to expect from an institution that has labeled itself, ‘the leaders and the best,’ and my Department will be considering all of our options if they violate Michigan law.”
“This administration draws most of its power from the willingness of its targets to capitulate without a fight, abandoning their own principles and interests, and throwing disfavored populations under the bus,” Nessel continued. “Despite repeated successful legal challenges to actions by this administration, UM has chosen instead to sacrifice the health, well-being, and likely the very lives of Michigan children, to protect itself from the ire of an administration who, oftentimes, engages in unlawful actions itself.”
Nessel was one of more than a dozen Democrat attorneys general to sue the Trump administration this month over the president’s January executive order aiming to end federal support of sex changes for minors and over the DOJ’s investigation of hospitals, per he Hill.
A federal judge partially blocked Trump’s order in February, although litigation is ongoing.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for – News. You can follow her on X @thekat_hamilton.
