California has long been the most insurrectionist of the states. Some states promised sanctuary to illegal aliens. California promises to go after law enforcement if they follow the law and cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Now California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who hopes to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, is threatening hospitals that they must ignore Trump’s executive orders and go on sterilizing kids.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today reminded California hospitals and federally-funded healthcare providers of their ongoing obligation under California anti-discrimination law to provide gender affirming care amid confusion resulting from President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directive on freezing or pausing federal funding and his executive order on gender affirming care. Attorney General Bonta also issued a letter putting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on notice of its obligations under state anti-discrimination law, following reports that the hospital is pausing the initiation of hormonal therapies for all gender affirming care patients under the age of 19 and gender-affirming surgeries on minors.

“California supports the rights of transgender youth to live their lives as their authentic selves,” said Attorney General Bonta. “We will not let the President turn back the clock or deter us from upholding California values. I understand that the President’s executive order on gender affirming care has created some confusion. Let me be clear: California law has not changed, and hospitals and clinics have a legal obligation to provide equal access to healthcare services.”

California law may say whatever it likes, but it does not change the growing burden liability that hospitals face if they continue sterilizing kids.

AG Bonta and California’s Democrat majority are doubling down on a position that they lost even among their own party. Most Americans oppose sterilizing mentally unstable or groomed children in the name of bizarre social theories of gender. Europeans are now backing away from those horrible abuses.

But Bonta is determined to fight on the hills of protecting illegal alien criminals and sterilizing kids. And he’s putting hospitals in an impossible position, ordering them to ignore the federal government and do what he says.

That can’t end well.