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On July 24, 2025, Yale New Haven Health System1 and Connecticut Children’s Hospital,2 the two largest pediatric health systems in the state of Connecticut, simultaneously announced that they would be stopping all gender-affirming care for patients under 20 years of age. Despite going forward with this cowardly decision publicly, in the newspapers, and through the despicable act of telephoning each parent whose child is receiving gender-affirming, life-saving care, neither board at either hospital3 appears to have taken any substantial precautions.
At a time when the fury of the popular classes has manifested such actions as the daring execution of Brian Thompson, it is curious that the many leaders of the two hospitals have not considered what is happening right now in homes across Connecticut. Parents are being told that their children are likely to suffer, perhaps even kill themselves in the coming years. There are names and faces associated with this suffering, and they aren’t some distant faceless bureaucrats in Washington, protected by the many miles and layers of red tape.
Oh, yes, the executive order that set this tragedy in motion came from Washington. It was drafted by some staffer in some back room. It was signed by the inhuman flesh-puppet Donald Trump. The blame for his election can be equally shared between GOP members and Democrats. So yes, there is plenty of blame to go around.
But gunmen and bombmakers aren’t likely to be interested in them. At least, not for now. The untold legions of parents that found out on July 24 that their children have been sentenced to suffer and perhaps to die aren’t likely to be hunting for figures in Washington to punish.
They will be looking for the people in their community that caused this tragedy. And they will find them.
Curious that these people haven’t built bunkers, hired private security, and gone off the grid.
Because they should.
- CEO: Christopher O’Connor. ↩︎
- CEO: James E. Shmerling. ↩︎
- YNHH Board Members: Thomas Balcezak, William J. Aseltyne, Gail W. Kosoyla, Pamela Sutton-Wallace, Alan Friedman, Anne Diamond, Frank Ciminiello, LIsa Stump, Michael Angelini and Pam Scagliarini; CT Children’s Board Members: Bill Agostinucci, Jonathan M. Carroll, Bob Duncan, Paul Dworkin, Matthew Farr, Bridgett Feagin, Christine Finck, Paulanne Jushkevich, Sarah Matney, Lawrence Milan, James E. Moore, Deb Pappas, Lori R. Pelletier, Juan C. Salazar, and R. Moses Vargas. ↩︎
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