Lurie Children’s Hospital will continue to provide hormone therapy and puberty blockers, a hospital spokesperson confirmed, and specifically noted that mental health care will also continue as part of the hospital’s gender care program.

The executive order, temporarily blocked by a federal court in Baltimore, threatens federal funding to hospitals providing gender-affirming care for people under age 19.

A statement from the hospital on Wednesday morning said it could only offer behavioral health services and “supportive care” to transgender patients.

The action at Lurie comes more than a week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order taking aim at gender-affirming care – including medications to delay puberty, hormone therapy and

Chicago's largest children's hospital is pausing gender-affirming surgeries for minors after President Trump's executive order called for an end to surgeries and chemical interventions for transgender people under the age of 19.