To the editor: This week, Kids’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) introduced a pause on the initiation of gender-affirming care for sufferers beneath the age of 19 to “totally perceive [the] implications” of a latest presidential government order.
As physicians with specialties in pediatrics, psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology, we urge CHLA to contemplate the implications of stopping such care.
The analysis is evident: Transgender and gender-diverse youth undergo disproportionately from despair and report increased charges of suicide than their friends. Entry to gender-affirming care decreases preventable deaths. CHLA is a pacesetter in gender-affirming medication, and the choice to pause this very important care sends the flawed message — that the well being of kids may be dictated by politicians untrained in medication relatively than the medical doctors who care for youngsters day by day.
We name on CHLA to face up for the sufferers and the group it serves by instantly restoring entry to this lifesaving look after transgender and gender-diverse youth.
Mahima Iyengar, M.D., Los Angeles
Briah Fischer, M.D., Los Angeles
Andrea Soto López, M.D., Los Angeles
Frances Gill, M.D., Los Angeles
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To the editor: My misery as a doctor over CHLA’s determination to cease providing gender-affirming care to sufferers youthful than 19 was compounded by The Instances’ reporting that attributes the choice to imprecise “hospital officers.”
Who made the choice? Hospital directors, not like physicians, don’t take the Hippocratic oath. We’d like public accountability. The chief government must be stepping as much as clarify this determination. When you’re not going to permit medical doctors to physician, then arise and defend your determination.
Isn’t “management” why you command a seven-figure wage?
I perceive the concern of federal funding being lower off, however there isn’t any precise federal rule to comply with but. This theoretical danger is being prioritized over the precise, present hurt to sufferers.
Isabella Sledge, M.D., Los Angeles
