The Gender Development Program at Children’s National Hospital will discontinue its gender-affirming medication prescription program for transgender minors and no longer offer transition services at the health institution.

An announcement was made on the program’s website on Monday. The change will go into effect on Aug. 30, according to a statement on the hospital’s webpage for the program.

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Previously, Children’s National Hospital reinforced ideas such as “each child’s gender journey is unique” and some children know that “they are a gender different than the one they were assumed at birth,” claiming that some of the children who feel this way may experience “the need to live and be affirmed as this gender in some or all settings.” 

In “A Message for Existing and New Patients,” the hospital briefly explained its decision to halt the gender-affirming program.

“In light of escalating legal and regulatory risks to Children’s National, our providers, and the families we serve, we will be discontinuing the prescription of gender-affirming medications,” read the message. “Mental health and other support services for LGBT patients remain available. You are always welcome at Children’s National for your other medical needs.” 

“We know this change will have a significant impact on affected patients, families, and staff,” noted the message. “Our care teams are working directly with families of current patients to support them.”

The hospital’s decision to halt the treatment comes just weeks after the Department of Justice issued subpoenas to medical professionals who have conducted gender-affirming medical procedures on children. 

“Medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology will be held accountable by this Department of Justice,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said at the time. 

Bondi’s actions adhere to the Trump administration’s objectives in reshaping the federal government with the “Protecting Children From Chemical And Surgical Mutilation” executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Jan. 28. 

“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” read the order. “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”

“Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding,” Trump’s order specified. 

“Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,” noted the presidential directive.

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Bondi acknowledged Children’s National Hospital’s decision in a post on X. She emphasized the Department of Justice’s commitment to “continue enforcing the law” against health institutions that promote gender-affirming care.

“At President Trump’s direction, @TheJusticeDept will continue enforcing the law against institutions like Children’s National that mutilate children under the guise of medical care,” Bondi posted. “History will remember @POTUS as a champion on this crucial issue,” she added.