(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued guidance warning hospitals that withholding “hormone therapies” and “gender-affirming surgeries” from minors are in violation of state law if they otherwise offer similar interventions to “cisgender” individuals seeking changes to better align with their birth genders, such as individuals with births or hormonal issues.
Bonta’s guidance and earlier letter followed an announcement by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest provider of gender change procedures for children, that it would stop accepting new patients under 19 for transitioning via hormones after President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to effectively ban and terminate “chemical and surgical mutilation” for American youth.
“California law, including the Unruh Civil Rights Act, Civil Code section 51 and Government Code section 11135, prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity,” wrote Bonta’s office. “Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination. California families seeking gender-affirming care, and the doctors and staff who provide it, are protected under state laws.”
CHLA said it is continuing administration of hormones to existing patients under 19.
Under California law, insurance companies must cover “gender-affirming care,” a requirement that also includes taxpayer-funded Medi-Cal.
However, with Trump’s new executive order, this could change, as the order not only bans federal funding of institutions that continue to conduct these interventions for age-restricted Americans and requires enforcement of anti-female-genital-mutilation laws, but seeks the eventual removal of “gender-affirming care” from coverage by federally-funded health programs, which includes Medi-Cal.
Bonta joined a coalition of 23 state attorneys general to successfully sue against a broad federal funding freeze, and is interpreting that the U.S. Department Justice’s notice on the ruling to also apply to Trump’s executive order halting funding for transitioning children.
“The U.S. DOJ stated that federal agencies ‘cannot pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate any awards or obligations on the basis of the OMB memo, or on the basis of the President’s recently issued Executive Orders,’” wrote Bonta’s office. “As such, the recent executive order pertaining to gender-affirming care for minors does not provide federal agencies with any basis to threaten or revoke federal funding from hospitals and federally funded healthcare providers.”
According to CalMatters, some hospitals are already losing federal transgender funding as federal agencies suspend or cancel ongoing grants and contracts, but are preparing to sue to regain any lost money.
The Italian word “Bonta’ Translates as “Goodness of Heart”, but apparently in the case of this California AG, translates as insanity of mind. Bonta needs to get the same gender transitioning as he allows to happen to our innocent Californian children,,,,,,using the dullest knife in the doctor’s bag that was probably just pulled out of Trump’s back. They take the words “gender bending” and socially redefine them into the opposite meaning of “Gender affirming” where newly imagined unreal genders unable to produce or create new life, get the same equity standing as the historical definition of the real genders as being XX and XY that keep the species from disappearing from the planet, and the USA populated with American strength. These fools are not only dangerous to themselves, but have the potential to become destroyers of nations which is just another version of who they really are,,,power grabbers who seek to redefine and reimage our people into THEIR image, of the great Consumer, ignoring the real purpose of our image of reflecting the Great CREATOR who made them and us all. They are the cracked pots trying to define what a sound vessel is supposed to be, and hold within itself as human integrity, refsuing to discriminate between workable good and destructive evil.
I truly believe that the Democrat Party is a cult of Satan.
Note how just about everything God has declared a Sin or an Abomination in the Holy Bible, this satanic Democrat Party and its demonic disciples approve of, encourage, promotes, supports and protects.
John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
More and more, when i see stories like this coming from CA, i just keep PRAYING that big one we have been ‘warned’ is coming would Hurry up and hit!
This is complete idiocy. My daughter needed to have an ear fold that she was born corrected. Insurance would not cover it and called it a cosmetic procedure. If she wanted to cut off her breasts, insurance would have covered it in California. Need to get the morons making these rules and defending them out of government ASAP.