Advocate, which operates 11 hospitals and 200 other facilities across Illinois, announced it will "no longer provide or prescribe gender-affirming care medications for patients under age 19," the Chicago Tribune reported.

"We recognize that this is a deeply complex issue, and this decision was made after a multi-disciplinary team spent numerous hours carefully considering the options and outcomes," it added. "This new policy allows our hospitals, clinics and pharmacies to continue caring for all patients' health needs in the changing federal environment."

The news follows similar announcements by the University of Michigan, Yale Medicine, Kaiser Permanente, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, UChicago Medicine, and Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC.

All were spurred by one of President Donald Trump's earliest executive actions upon returning to office: an order that ends all federal financial support for "transition" procedures on minors, rescinds or amends all of the Biden health bureaucracy's past endorsements of underage "transitioning," and calls for a review of the medical literature on the subject, enforcing all existing restrictions on underage "transitioning," and taking regulatory action to "end" the practice to the greatest extent possible under current law.

Illinois is one of 15 states challenging the Trump administration in court over the effort, but they have yet to secure an injunction... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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