The gender medicine reckoning has begun

The medical profession is at a crossroads. For decades, the medical establishment has insisted that so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors is settled science, despite weak evidence. Now, as the truth about the dangers is becoming impossible to ignore, a recent change from a California hospital system is signaling a shift from ideological obedience to evidence-based accountability in the medical profession. 

Sutter Health, a health system with 25 acute care hospitals and over 200 clinics across northern and central California, quietly announced on Nov. 20 that it will stop providing “gender-affirming care” services to minor patients under age 19, beginning on or around Dec. 10. 

This is the fourth California system to make changes this year following President Donald Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order that ended any federal funding or support of “transition” for individuals under 19 years old and promised to enforce laws that limit or ban those practices. Children’s Hospital L.A.,

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