A hospital in Colorado had ended medical transitions of children – that is, it stopped giving puberty blockers and hormones to children (it never gave surgical treatment to children). But then parents of trans-identified children sued the hospital, and demanded it continue treatment. A Colorado court decided, in early July, that the hospital must provide it:

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled 5-2 on May 18 that Children’s should resume providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, deciding in favor of transgender patients who had sued the hospital.

The state’s highest court returned the case to a lower court, saying a judge should issue an injunction requiring the hospital to resume care. That lower court judge, Denver District Judge Ericka F.E. Englert, issued the injunction Thursday, and Children’s confirmed Monday that care would resume, at least as an offering in the hospital’s array of services.

In an emailed statement, Children’s said the hospital had “reinstated medical gender-affirming care into our scope of services” — and then added that every medical doctor in the gender-affirming care clinic “has independently decided they will not prescribe or renew gender-affirming medications for patients under age 18.”

That was written nearly a month ago.

The hospital initially had suspended these services because the feds had threatened to cut off Medicaid funding, which is a huge source of the hospital’s income. After the lawsuit from the parents, the doctors are still refusing to provide the drugs because they say they are afraid of being held criminally liable.

The hospital continues to provide “mental health care” for such children. That is very appropriate; the medications are not. I’ve written extensively on that subject and am not going into it again here.