Thu Sep 29, 2022 – 6:07 pm EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Oklahoma Children’s Hospital (OCH) plans to cease unspecified “gender medicine services” as the Oklahoma Legislature works to ban procedures to “transition” minors, though questions remain as to the vagueness of the hospital’s statement.
The Daily Caller reports that OCH, which operates under the Oklahoma University (OU) Health system, told them that the “OU Health Senior Leadership team is proactively planning the ceasing of certain gender medicine services across our facilities and that plan is already under development.”
The news follows the Oklahoma House of Representatives adding language to a hospital appropriations bill placing new conditions on the $39.4 million it is receiving from the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for a new mental and behavioral health facility.
The language establishes that none of that money may be used “for the benefit of any facility owned by the University Hospitals Authority or University Hospitals Trust performing ‘gender reassignment medical treatment’ … on children under eighteen (18) years of age,” including “interventions to suppress the development of endogenous secondary sex characteristics … interventions to align the patient’s appearance or physical body with the patient’s gender
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