{"id":1147,"date":"2026-05-19T14:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:04:58","slug":"top-colorado-court-orders-childrens-hospital-to-resume-gender-affirming-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"Top Colorado court orders Children\u2019s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n<p><em>This story was first published at Colorado Newsline.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DENVER<\/strong> | The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado in Aurora should restart gender-affirming care for transgender children, about five months after the hospital stopped providing such treatment in the face of threats to federal funding.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0\u00a0wants the lower trial court to reverse its decision and issue a preliminary injunction against the hospital, writing that there is sufficient evidence to prove that the hospital \u2014 referred to as CHC in the ruling \u2014 violated the state\u2019s anti-discrimination law when it stopped offering care like puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender children but continued offering it to cisgender children for some hormonal conditions. The hospital has never provided gender-affirming surgeries for children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCHC has directly tied its decision to suspend medical gender-affirming care to the identity of transgender patients,\u201d Justice William Hood wrote for the majority. \u201cCHC\u2019s decision to suspend medical gender-affirming care to youth denies petitioners the full and equal enjoyment of services based on gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hospital operates the TRUE Center for Gender Diversity, which has historically served both adult and minor patients. In January, the hospital suspended treatment for minors after the Trump administration and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to cut funding to facilities that offer gender-affirming care to minors. The warning from the federal government was existential to the hospital, since it serves a significant number of patients who use Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>A group of parents of transgender children then sued, seeking an injunction to prevent the hospital from refusing medically-necessary care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPetitioners and other transgender youth who sought such care from CHC were suddenly abandoned during a precarious time,\u201d the Monday ruling says. \u201cWithout access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy, these children will go through puberty and develop characteristics of a sex with which they do not identify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s is \u201creviewing the court\u2019s ruling and assessing our next steps,\u201d spokesperson Rachael Fowler wrote in an email. The hospital will provide guidance \u201cin the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Two justices dissent<\/h4>\n<p>The mental health of several children has worsened since January, the ruling contends, including one child mentioning suicide after a hospitalization for a depressive episode.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver District Court decided not to require Children\u2019s to restart care. But in its ruling Monday, the state\u2019s highest court stated that the hospital cannot use federal threats \u2014 in this case a federal declaration, not a law banning gender-affirming care \u2014 to discriminate against transgender children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe threat of harm to CHC remains speculative, and CHC has other avenues to address it. Issuing the preliminary injunction petitioners seek won\u2019t cause CHC\u2019s immediate exclusion from federal health care payment programs or cause it to shut down,\u201d the ruling reads.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Brian Boatright and Carlos Samour dissented, writing that the majority\u2019s decision minimizes the extreme consequence of losing federal funding, which would threaten the hospital\u2019s ability to stay open.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s previously\u00a0stopped providing\u00a0gender-affirming care for minors in February 2025 following a federal executive order, but it resumed care after a federal judge blocked the order. 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