{"id":2668705,"date":"2026-09-23T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-trans-kids-fight-is-ending-important-transgender-clinic-for-minors-closes-in-california\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T21:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:53:04","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-trans-kids-fight-is-ending-important-transgender-clinic-for-minors-closes-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-trans-kids-fight-is-ending-important-transgender-clinic-for-minors-closes-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Trans Kids&#8217; Fight Is Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-trans-kids-fight-is-ending-important-transgender-clinic-for-minors-closes-in-california%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2668705&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the rapid decline of pediatric transgender clinics amid political and legal pressures in the United States. Recently, the Department of Justice reached agreements with hospitals such as NYU Langone and UPMC to cease providing gender-affirming care to minors, framing these efforts as part of a broader push to end such procedures nationwide.Meanwhile, some doctors and clinics have shifted to private operations, continuing to offer transgender surgeries and hormone treatments outside hospital settings, often with state funding, especially in California. Notably, California allocated $26 million to support minors receiving transgender interventions, with the state explicitly funding these procedures. The DOJ\u2019s stance, aligned with President Trump\u2019s 2025 order, opposes funding and support for gender transition procedures for minors, nonetheless of location. Increasing legal challenges, insurance issues, and professional warnings further threaten the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-is-trying-to-save-the-pediatric-trans-industry-because-its-dying\/\" title=\"... Tries To Save Pediatric Trans Industry Because It&#039;s Dying\">pediatric transgender care<\/a>. Several independent clinics, like Prosilio Care in california, are shutting down or relocating, signaling the imminent end of pediatric transgender procedures across both hospital and private providers, as authorities tighten restrictions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gradually, then suddenly. On Wednesday morning, the website of a major provider of transgender interventions for minors in California was full of detailed information about services and personnel. Late Wednesday afternoon, it looked like this:<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>Screenshot       <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pediatric transgender clinic is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, even in the new forms that have recently arisen to evade a hostile political climate. <\/p>\n<p>The first part of that picture is more obvious. Last week, the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/doj-secures-agreements-nyu-and-upmc-end-pediatric-gender-affirming-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that it had reached settlements with two more hospitals to end \u201csex-rejecting procedures on children.\u201d The agreements with New York University Langone Hospitals and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center were the fifth and sixth agreements DOJ has reached with hospitals to end transgender medical procedures for minors, an effort that included a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/attorney-general-paxton-finalizes-historic-settlement-texas-childrens-hospital-creating-first-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">partnership in Texas<\/a> with Attorney General Ken Paxton. <\/p>\n<p>Predictably, coverage of those agreements in legacy media has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/22\/us\/trangender-youths-hospital-settlements.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">depicted<\/a> the DOJ\u2019s work on the topic as a bad-faith effort to intimidate hospitals and target trans-identifying individuals.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s something else happening in the background, and it has so far escaped attention. <\/p>\n<p>As hospitals have closed their pediatric transgender facilities, some of the doctors who practiced in those hospital-based facilities have moved to their own privately managed operations, continuing to perform the same types of mutilating surgeries and hormonal interventions. The website for the Pasadena, California, transgender facility Prosilio Care is <a href=\"https:\/\/prosiliocare.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and was active until Wednesday afternoon, revealing that former Los Angeles Children\u2019s Hospital pediatrician Johanna Olson-Kennedy was on staff. Olson-Kennedy is one of the best-known and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/23\/science\/puberty-blockers-olson-kennedy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most controversial<\/a> providers of transgender procedures for minors in the country, and was the medical director of the now-shuttered \u201cTransyouth Clinic\u201d at the Los Angeles hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Prosilio was formed under the umbrella of a San Francisco facility, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genderconfirmation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gender Confirmation Center<\/a> (GCC). Prosilio advertised provision of opposite-sex hormones and mental health services, while GCC also performs transgender surgeries. Until Wednesday afternoon, staff profiles on the Prosilio website specifically mentioned services for adolescent patients:<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>Screenshot       <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In an effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >save pediatric transgender intervention businesses<\/a> this year, Kennedy-Olson joined other providers to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/07\/california-is-trying-to-save-the-pediatric-trans-industry-because-its-dying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seek state funding<\/a> for their facilities from the California legislature. That effort succeeded, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a state budget that included <a href=\"https:\/\/lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov\/node\/241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$26 million in funding<\/a> to cover opposite-sex hormones and genital mutilation for minors. Remember this, because it\u2019s about to become important: In California, transgender procedures for minors are specifically and directly funded by the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Asked this week if the effort against transgender interventions on minors would also address the availability of those procedures in clinics that aren\u2019t associated with hospitals, a DOJ spokesman told The Federalist to review an earlier press release that would \u201cexplain our position on affirmative litigation to end these practices.\u201d That press release said that the DOJ would be guided by President Donald Trump\u2019s January 28, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">order<\/a> \u201cProtecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,\u201d which drew no distinction over the location of those procedures:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called \u201ctransition\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the Trump administration has sought to end puberty blockers and transgender surgeries for minors nationwide, additional pressures have made the provision of those services increasingly untenable. In the face of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/03\/health\/gender-surgery-malpractice-varian.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detransitioner lawsuits<\/a> and federal pressure, insurance companies have become far more reluctant to provide medical malpractice insurance to the providers of transgender procedures for minors, and <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/health-care-costs\/medical-malpractice-premiums-gender-affirming-care-minors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">premiums have soared<\/a>. At the same time, professional associations like the American Society of Plastic Surgeons have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/03\/gender-affirming-surgeries-delay-until-age-19-plastic-surgeon-association-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">begun to warn doctors<\/a> against participating in pediatric transgender procedures, describing the question as a matter of medical ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Asked this week for comment on the legal environment for transgender procedures provided to minors, a spokesman for the Gender Confirmation Center replied that GCC \u201cprovides gender-affirming surgical care exclusively to adults,\u201d and added this important detail: \u201cIn November 2025, GCC and Prosilio Care agreed to separate their operations effective October 1, 2026. This has been underway for nearly a year and is unrelated to recent Department of Justice actions. Over the last few months, all patients of Prosilio have \u2026 already been apprised of this change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate message, spokesman David Perry added that Prosilio \u201cis not transitioning to an adult-only practice. The decision was made in November 2025 to shut down Prosilio entirely, effective October 1, 2026, or sooner. That process has been underway and is unrelated to this week\u2019s actions by the DOJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the DOJ is forcing hospitals to close facilities that engage in the mutilation of minors, the end is also coming for independent operations that aren\u2019t affiliated with hospitals. The most aggressive and determined performers of transgender procedures for children are reading the trajectory and exiting the business.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter from The Federalist visited Prosilio Care on Wednesday afternoon, and found a locked door to an apparently empty office.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Chris Bray\/The Federalist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The end is coming, rapidly and everywhere. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender clinics for minors are quickly disappearing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2668706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/olson-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32547,33240,38068,50365],"class_list":["post-2668705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gender-equality","tag-lgbtq-rights","tag-social-activism","tag-transgender-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/olson-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668714,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668705\/revisions\/2668714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2668706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}