The health system, which operates the region’s safety-net hospital, has not said whether it also is halting hormonal treatment.

The order directs that federally-run insurance programs, including TRICARE and Medicaid, exclude coverage for gender-affirming care for those under 19.

The order mandates that federally run insurance programs exclude coverage for gender-affirming care for individuals under 19.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday restricting gender transition procedures for individuals under 19.

Daniel Barlow, executive director of the People’s Health & Wellness Clinic in Barre, which treats patients 18 and older, called the order “a dangerous escalation in the ongoing political attacks on transgender and nonbinary people, and we fear it will deny lifesaving care to Vermonters of all ages.”

Federal agencies must stop disbursing financial assistance starting at 5 p.m. today under a new budget directive, threatening funding for providers and creating significant uncertainty for Medicaid payments to states.

Denver Health has suspended gender-affirming surgeries for minors to comply with President Trump's executive order aimed at cutting federal support for gender transitions for people under age 19.

The executive order instructs agencies to ensure hospitals and other institutions receiving federal money stop offering gender-affirming care for minors.

We have to interact with all of these insurance companies, Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, the hold gamut of companies and it comes down to needing to understand some of the policies and helping to ...

"It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child," he said.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday barring federal support for gender-affirming medical care for people under the age of 19, according to the White House. “It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund,

The executive order follows a separate Pentagon directive calling for a change for transgender troops issued Monday.