Hospitals Fret Executive Orders Targeting Trans Youth

This is a MedPage Today story. Last Friday, St. John’s Community Health, a large southern California network of federally qualified health centers serving 430,000 individuals a year, tried to withdraw funds from a $1.67 million CDC grant specifically earmarked for transgender health services. “We weren’t able to access it,” Jim Mangia, St. John’s president and CEO, told MedPage Today, “even though there was an injunction forbidding federal departments from initiating any funding freezes or terminations based on [the president’s] executive orders.” And even though the money is needed for payroll and service expenses. The balance remaining in that 4-year grant, which began in June of 2022 — $743,706 — was stripped from their account subsequent to Tweety McTreason’s Jan. 28 executive order, “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” he said. Despite that, St. John’s is committed to fighting back and will find the money elsewhere, he said. It receives some $230…