California AG warns L.A. hospital that withholding hormonal therapy and other gender-affirming care from transgender youth could violate state law.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a reminder to California hospitals and federally funded healthcare providers of their obligations under state law to provide gender-affirming care despite President Donald Trump’s executive order pulling federal funding from clinics providing those services to minors.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has announced that it is pausing transgender hormonal therapy for patients under the age of 19. In a statement issued Tuesday, hospital officials said they are suspending the care to assess an executive order signed last week by President Trump banning the use of hormones,