From California to Virginia, youth gender clinics are pausing or halting medicalized treatments—and the nation’s largest one has closed—in the wake of Trump administration policies.

These types of clinics were non-existent in the United States until one <a href="https://statsforgender.org/between-2007-and-2017-the-number-of-transgender-youth-clinics-in-the-us-went-from-1-to-41/" target="_blank" class="article-hover-class">opened</a> in Boston in 2007. Since then, dozens more sprang up. But at least 20 medical facilities will no longer be providing some of these services, according to a White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/president-trump-promised-to-end-child-sexual-mutilation-and-he-delivered/" target="_blank" class="article-hover-class">statement</a> last month.

More than 20 clinics have changed course in response to a political shift, and gender-related treatments for minors face increasing legal challenges.{ai:summary}<p>Across the U.S., youth gender clinics from California to Virginia are pausing or halting medicalized treatments amid Trump-era policies.</p><p>The country's largest clinic has closed; since the first opened in Boston in 2007, roughly 20 facilities will stop offering some services, per a White House statement last month. #politics</p>

Clinics Are Ending Gender Treatments for Kids in Wake of Trump’s Policies

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