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Multiple sources reported on February 20 that Colorado hospitals including Denver Health and Children’s Hospital Colorado, which is located on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, will resume providing gender-affirming care for minors. Earlier this month, Denver Health and other hospitals announced that they would pause hormonal therapy and transgender surgeries after evaluating President Trump’s executive order called “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” which was published on January 28.
The announcement that the hospitals would resume providing gender-affirming care for children under the age of 18 came after Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said that the state is joining a lawsuit aimed at invalidating Trump’s executive order that threatened hospital funding. According to Weiser’s announcement, the lawsuit claims that “the presidential executive order violates the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee by singling out transgender individuals for mistreatment and discrimination.” Colorado will join Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit, originally filed by Washington State, will attempt to “permanently block federal agencies from acting on the executive order and will enable health care providers to resume gender-affirming care, including in Colorado.”
Weiser’s statement also said that a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order on February 14, stating that it “blatantly discriminated against trans youth.”
