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California Judge Orders Children's Hospital to Continue 'Gender-Affirming Surgeries' for Minors

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  February 20, 2026 10:00 AM

Earlier, we told you about the ever-growing list of hospitals across the nation that are no longer providing "gender-affirming surgeries" to minors. One of those hospitals was Rady Children's Hospital in California. The change in policy is, unfortunately, less a response to the immoral practice that is "gender-affirming care" for minors and more likely the result of a $2 million lawsuit won by detransitioner Fox Varian, who sued her psychologist and the surgeon who performed a double mastectomy on her at age 16.

But now a California judge has apparently ruled that Rady's Children's Hospital must continue mutilating and sterilizing children. 

Here's more:

A judge with the San Diego County Superior Court has ruled that Rady Children’s Hospital must continue offering so-called “gender affirming care” to minors, even after the hospital announced it would stop providing such services.

Judge Matthew Braner ruled last week that the hospital must continue to offer transgender procedures, including things such as puberty-blockers and other hormone treatments, to patients under 19. The hospital had previously announced in January that it would stop offering the procedures. This prompted the California Attorney General’s Office to sue, arguing that ending these procedures violated state law.

“Rady Children’s Health has chosen to violate its merger agreement and California law in response to the Trump Administration’s illegal campaign against providers of gender-affirming care,” said Attorney General Bonta at the time. “Rady flagrantly disregarded its legal obligations by unilaterally deciding to preemptively comply with the Administration’s demands and cease medically necessary care for roughly 1,450 patients. We will not allow Rady to violate its obligations to its patients and the State. We will fight to uphold the law and ensure Californians can access gender-affirming care without facing unfair roadblocks.”

Attorneys for Rady argued the hospital would be at “catastrophic risk” of losing federal funding should it continue these procedures because it would be at odds with a December declaration from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The declaration stated that so-called “gender affirming care” for minors does not meet “professionally recognized standards of health care.”

It's simply incredible that Democrats and activist judges believe they're not only morally and legally right to force providers to perform these grotesque procedures on children, but that they vow to punish anyone who says no.

You do not have freedom of conscience under Democratic Party rule.

Abortion is (D)ifferent.

At a minimum, there should be legal and professional consequences for these activist judges.

As this writer said, Democrats will have to move to bar malpractice suits filed by detransitioners, because it's the only way they'll get doctors to comply with their radical trans agenda. Malpractice insurance companies, health care organizations, and doctors themselves will not be willing to take the massive financial risk as trans suits make their way through the courts. The Economist said these suits could lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages being awarded to the victims of the trans activists.