As might be expected, Portland's Oregon Health and Sciences University's gender clinic (which has its very own "queer"® surgeon) is going full speed ahead despite Trump's attempts to rein in the chemical and surgical mutilation of children and young people.
Here's an item about it from Oregon's queer-friendly newspaper of record, OregonLi…
As might be expected, Portland's Oregon Health and Sciences University's gender clinic (which has its very own "queer"® surgeon) is going full speed ahead despite Trump's attempts to rein in the chemical and surgical mutilation of children and young people.
Here's an item about it from Oregon's queer-friendly newspaper of record, OregonLive/The Oregonian:
Oregon Health & Science University, one of the country’s leading providers of gender-affirming care for transgender people, says it expects no interruption in those services despite a recent federal order aiming to limit such treatments — for now, at least.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order restricting federal funding for gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under 19. The directive specifically targets puberty blockers, hormone therapies — including androgen blockers, estrogen, progesterone and testosterone — as well as surgical interventions.
OHSU said in a statement the federal order would have no immediate effects. The institution’s Transgender Health Program provides a range of gender-affirming medical services, including hormone therapy and surgery, and serves more than 6,000 adult and pediatric patients.
“As of now, nothing has changed about the care OHSU provides,” Sara Hottman, a spokesperson for the university, wrote in an email. “OHSU is evaluating the potential impacts of the executive order and remains committed to ensuring our patients continue to receive respectful, quality care.”
Officials from Legacy Health, the largest hospital chain in Portland and a major provider of gender-affirming care, also said it has not made any changes in the care they provide.
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at OHSU and Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel are the only two general children’s hospitals in Oregon, and both provide care to transgender youth.
OHSU and Legacy, like most hospitals, rely on payments from both Medicare and Medicaid in addition to private insurance. Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C., have already paused gender-affirming care for minors to ensure continued federal funding, The Associated Press reported.
Trump’s order aligns with a campaign promise to bar any hospital or provider offering gender-transition treatments to minors from participating in Medicaid and Medicare.
The administration’s directive instructs federal agencies, particularly the Department of Health and Human Services, to take steps to limit federal support for pediatric gender-affirming treatments. It seeks to exclude coverage for these procedures from federal insurance programs like Medicaid and federal employee benefits, and prevent federally funded medical facilities from offering these services to minors.
But the order is certain to face legal challenges.
On Thursday, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield denounced the federal directive as “a clear example of the administration imposing its political agenda at the expense of some of the most vulnerable people.” His office stated it will closely monitor the implementation of the order and its effects on Oregonians.
“How the order is implemented will impact how we approach our work to protect access to care,” Rayfield said. “All legal options are on the table at this point.”
The cishet, generic, upper middle class, white progressive lawyer type who is Oregon's attorney general (https://danrayfield.com/) is the last person who should be talking about the Trump administration "imposing its political agenda at the expense of some of our most vulnerable people." You see, trans activists and their allies in white coast have already have already done that to highly vulnerable youth when they fed them into the chemical and surgical machine up at Oregon Health and Sciences University.
As of now, the Transgender Health Program's website is still up.
If you visit there, you will have a chance to see the Clinic's trans poster person. What's the point of being trans on the inside if your hairdo, fashion and expression don't scream "QUEER"? God forbid that a trans person should look like a normie! https://www.ohsu.edu/transgender-health
The unisex presentation of a person should not be cause for ridicule; attacking people for presenting in a manner not in sync with societal expectations regarding gender and dress is bigotry. The person depicted is not mocking women or engaged in female mimicry, they are simply indulging in avant-garde fashion.
As might be expected, Portland's Oregon Health and Sciences University's gender clinic (which has its very own "queer"® surgeon) is going full speed ahead despite Trump's attempts to rein in the chemical and surgical mutilation of children and young people.
Here's an item about it from Oregon's queer-friendly newspaper of record, OregonLive/The Oregonian:
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Oregon Health & Science University, one of the country’s leading providers of gender-affirming care for transgender people, says it expects no interruption in those services despite a recent federal order aiming to limit such treatments — for now, at least.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order restricting federal funding for gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under 19. The directive specifically targets puberty blockers, hormone therapies — including androgen blockers, estrogen, progesterone and testosterone — as well as surgical interventions.
OHSU said in a statement the federal order would have no immediate effects. The institution’s Transgender Health Program provides a range of gender-affirming medical services, including hormone therapy and surgery, and serves more than 6,000 adult and pediatric patients.
“As of now, nothing has changed about the care OHSU provides,” Sara Hottman, a spokesperson for the university, wrote in an email. “OHSU is evaluating the potential impacts of the executive order and remains committed to ensuring our patients continue to receive respectful, quality care.”
Officials from Legacy Health, the largest hospital chain in Portland and a major provider of gender-affirming care, also said it has not made any changes in the care they provide.
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at OHSU and Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel are the only two general children’s hospitals in Oregon, and both provide care to transgender youth.
OHSU and Legacy, like most hospitals, rely on payments from both Medicare and Medicaid in addition to private insurance. Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C., have already paused gender-affirming care for minors to ensure continued federal funding, The Associated Press reported.
Trump’s order aligns with a campaign promise to bar any hospital or provider offering gender-transition treatments to minors from participating in Medicaid and Medicare.
The administration’s directive instructs federal agencies, particularly the Department of Health and Human Services, to take steps to limit federal support for pediatric gender-affirming treatments. It seeks to exclude coverage for these procedures from federal insurance programs like Medicaid and federal employee benefits, and prevent federally funded medical facilities from offering these services to minors.
But the order is certain to face legal challenges.
On Thursday, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield denounced the federal directive as “a clear example of the administration imposing its political agenda at the expense of some of the most vulnerable people.” His office stated it will closely monitor the implementation of the order and its effects on Oregonians.
“How the order is implemented will impact how we approach our work to protect access to care,” Rayfield said. “All legal options are on the table at this point.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/01/ohsu-says-no-changes-to-gender-affirming-care-despite-trump-executive-order.html
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The cishet, generic, upper middle class, white progressive lawyer type who is Oregon's attorney general (https://danrayfield.com/) is the last person who should be talking about the Trump administration "imposing its political agenda at the expense of some of our most vulnerable people." You see, trans activists and their allies in white coast have already have already done that to highly vulnerable youth when they fed them into the chemical and surgical machine up at Oregon Health and Sciences University.
As of now, the Transgender Health Program's website is still up.
If you visit there, you will have a chance to see the Clinic's trans poster person. What's the point of being trans on the inside if your hairdo, fashion and expression don't scream "QUEER"? God forbid that a trans person should look like a normie! https://www.ohsu.edu/transgender-health
The unisex presentation of a person should not be cause for ridicule; attacking people for presenting in a manner not in sync with societal expectations regarding gender and dress is bigotry. The person depicted is not mocking women or engaged in female mimicry, they are simply indulging in avant-garde fashion.