{"id":2858,"date":"2026-06-26T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:33:18","slug":"trans-youth-face-mental-health-crises-as-doctors-refuse-care-at-aurora-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2858","title":{"rendered":"Trans youth face mental health crises as doctors refuse care at Aurora Children\u2019s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. Young LGBTQ+ people can connect with a crisis counselor at The Trevor Project by texting \u201cSTART\u201d to 678-678.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Colorado Newsline.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>DENVER<\/strong> | Drawn by Colorado\u2019s broad protections for transgender youth, a Texas family packed up and moved to the state almost three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Their teenaged daughter had asserted who she was \u201cfrom the minute she could talk,\u201d her mother said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we started affirming her, it was just like the first time we ever saw her really smile \u2014 not just like the fake smile with her mouth, but in her eyes, too,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd she was just so happy. She was incredibly anxious and sad and weepy in her early childhood, and as soon as she was affirmed, she was just so outgoing and confident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the family hasn\u2019t been able to access the gender-affirming medication the 15-year-old relies on since January, when Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado in Aurora stopped offering that care to minors due to threats from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really looked at this state as a sanctuary state, and so that\u2019s why it\u2019s so incredibly heartbreaking that we\u2019ve moved really for no reason now, it feels like,\u201d the mother said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family requested anonymity in this story out of fear for their safety.<\/p>\n<p>Even following\u00a0a court order\u00a0in mid-May that required Children\u2019s Hospital to reinstate care for transgender youth, doctors were wary of refilling prescriptions for patients under 18. The doctors who offer gender-affirming care through Children\u2019s Hospital\u2019s TRUE Center for Gender Diversity \u201chave each independently decided not to prescribe or renew gender-affirming medications for minors,\u201d according to a statement from the hospital. The doctors\u2019 refusal to provide care was first reported by\u00a0The Colorado Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s Hospital said it is in compliance with the court order that required it to reinstate gender-affirming care for minors into its scope of care, since it would allow doctors to offer the care. The TRUE Center providers are employees of the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, and the hospital cannot direct a provider\u2019s \u201cindependent clinical decisions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are medical providers who have dedicated their entire careers to building relationships with and caring for gender-diverse patients, and these decisions were not made lightly,\u201d the hospital statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CU Anschutz said in a statement that providers determined that \u201cthe risk of federal threats to their practice of medicine is too great to safely prescribe gender-affirming medical care for patients under 18 years of age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a difficult decision, and the providers had to consider the potential impacts of their decisions on their ability to continue caring for all patients, including gender-diverse youth, in the future,\u201d the university statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A December declaration from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy threatened to pull Medicaid and other federal funding from any facility that provided gender-affirming care to minors. Colorado\u00a0joined\u00a0several other Democratic-led states in suing, and an Oregon judge\u00a0ruled\u00a0the declaration was unlawful in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four families sued Children\u2019s Hospital after it initially stopped offering care to their children in January. The family Newsline interviewed for this story is referred to by pseudonyms in the lawsuit due to safety concerns. The same is also true for the other plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in May that the hospital violated the state\u2019s anti-discrimination law when it stopped offering care like puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender young people but continued offering it to cisgender children for some hormonal conditions. The hospital has never provided gender-affirming surgeries for minors.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s highest court directed a lower court to issue a preliminary injunction against the hospital. The lower court earlier this month issued the injunction, which required Children\u2019s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care for patients under 18.<\/p>\n<h4>\u2018Extremely traumatized\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>It takes a while to build trust with a doctor for such specialized care, the mother said. Her daughter had finally become fully comfortable with her doctor at the TRUE Center after two years under their care, and to \u201chave that provider ripped away overnight again was incredibly distressing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following her cessation of care in January, the teen started having chronic nightmares. She handed her mother a note when she dropped her off at school one day that explained the nightmares in detail, concluding the note with \u201cif I don\u2019t see you again, I love you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her mother immediately picked her back up from school and took her to her pediatrician, who suggested she go right to Children\u2019s Hospital \u2014 which the family was already in the process of suing. As a parent, she was \u201cso angry at Children\u2019s,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was admitted for a two-week inpatient program and then a four-week partial hospitalization program at Children\u2019s Hospital, and during that time, she revealed she had planned to take her own life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went from winter break, she was happy as could be, having sleepovers with her friends, had a boyfriend, straight As at school, like thriving \u2014 to finding out that care was being taken away from her again and just slowly, just wasn\u2019t coming out of her room, didn\u2019t want to socialize with her friends,\u201d the mother said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said her family was already \u201cextremely traumatized and wary of the medical establishment\u201d when they first got to Colorado, \u201cand this experience has only reinforced those feelings.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family previously traveled out of Texas a few times a year to access gender-affirming care, and when they first moved to Colorado, they were on a waitlist for an appointment at the TRUE Center, so out-of-state travel for care continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surgery is almost never a consideration for transgender youth, and it was never part of the teen\u2019s care. Her mother does not like to share many more healthcare details, because she said there is no other situation where the medication prescribed to someone is so publicly scrutinized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow dehumanizing is it that people think that it\u2019s for public consumption what type of medical intervention trans people receive?\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Shifting blame<\/h4>\n<p>Paula Greisen, one of the attorneys representing the families in the case, said the hospital is shifting the blame from its own leadership to the providers in \u201ca very transparent attempt to circumvent the court order.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst they were sacrificing the children, and now they\u2019re pointing the fingers at the doctors and medical providers, saying, \u2018It\u2019s their fault, they refuse to provide care,\u2019\u201d Greisen said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The families say in the lawsuit that \u201cno reputable medical provider would justify refusing care to patients because of their religion, color of their skin, or any other protected category,\u201d and that Children\u2019s Hospital leadership is \u201cdoing exactly that\u201d because transgender people are \u201cvillainized and denigrated by the current presidential administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Supreme Court, in its\u00a0\u00a0directing the district court to issue the injunction, acknowledged the severity of the threat to pull federal funding from the hospital, but the threat of harm is still speculative. The harm to transgender youth who are unable to access necessary medical care outweighs the potential harm the hospital may face, the ruling said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s just incredibly disappointing that the hospital has put all this energy into preemptively complying with a corrupt administration instead of pushing back and going to bat for their patients and their doctors,\u201d Doe said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to quantify \u201chow devastating\u201d it is for the affected children to lose their care and go to court to fight for it, Greisen said. Going untreated can have \u201chave enormous, lifelong consequences\u201d for children with gender dysphoria, she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I can explain what it\u2019s like for a child who is worried about having the onset of puberty happen because your doctors refuse to renew or prescribe your puberty blockers,\u201d Greisen said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a02024 survey\u00a0by The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention organization for young LGBTQ+ people, found that 46% of transgender and nonbinary young people considered suicide in the last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July, the Department of Justice subpoenaed Children\u2019s Hospital for patient data as part of an investigation into off-label use of prescriptions for gender-affirming care. The hospital is fighting that subpoena.<\/p>\n<p>Denver Health also stopped offering gender-affirming care to youth in January and has yet to resume that care. Some primary care offices offer gender-affirming care to transgender minors, but Children\u2019s Hospital and Denver Health were the largest providers. Cessation of care at Children\u2019s Hospital is\u00a0estimated\u00a0to have affected about 800 patients. Many offices that specialize in gender-affirming care have long waitlists for patients.<\/p>\n<p>While Colorado has\u00a0shield laws\u00a0that protect gender-affirming care providers and patients from criminal prosecution and subpoenas by other states, those protections don\u2019t extend to the federal government. Colorado also passed a law that\u00a0prohibits insurance plans\u00a0from limiting or denying gender-affirming care that a doctor identifies as medically necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals in Texas and Ohio have stopped offering gender-affirming care as a result of\u00a0settlements\u00a0with the U.S. Department of Justice. A grand jury in Texas is pursuing criminal charges against gender-affirming care providers.<\/p>\n<p>In the case before the Denver judge, Children\u2019s Hospital filed a request for a jury trial last week, and the plaintiff families filed a motion for class certification to include all adolescent transgender youth who have sought care at the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2854\">Blue Jackets acquire winger Valeri Nichushkin in a trade with the Avalanche<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2855\">Supreme Court lets Trump end protections for Haitian, Syrian migrants. 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