by Calvin Freiburger, LifeSite News:
A new watchdog report questions whether five prominent hospitals have really abandoned child gender transitions or identity-politics initiatives in the wake of new rules to stop doing so or lose federal funding, given the depth of their activism.
Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has taken multiple executive actions to reverse the Biden administration’s transgender policies, including an order that ends all federal support for “transition” procedures on minors, rescinds or amends all of the Biden health bureaucracy’s past endorsements of underage “transitioning,” and calls for a review of the medical literature on the subject, enforcing all existing restrictions on underage “transitioning,” and taking regulatory action to “end” the practice to the greatest extent possible under current law; and an order to defund any educational system that maintains DEI programs.
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But compliance with those orders is another matter, which is why the conservative group Consumers’ Research has put out a report on “Woke Hospitals,” which have “diverted vital resources away from patients and medical-centered functions to fund and oversee ideological projects involving race, sexuality, and environmentalism.”
It identifies Cleveland Clinic, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital for their history of work to “transition” gender-confused minors, carry out Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) programs, and/or participate in other forms of left-wing activism unrelated to treating patients.
Cleveland Clinic, for instance, has “Diversity Coordinators,” “Diversity Councils,” and an Office of Diversity & Inclusion that offers “diversity pipeline talent management”; last year, two of its health programs were accused of “prioritiz[ing] different patients and administer[ing] care based on skin color.” It identifies “greening its operating rooms” as a goal, has lobbied against restrictions on transgender procedures, and last December “opened a new facility in Florida designed exclusively for [so-called] LGBTQ patients to receive ‘inclusive’ transgender services.” As of March 2025, it still “transitions” minors, according to the Daily Caller.
Vanderbilt has ostensibly been taking down its DEI websites since President Donald Trump returned to office, but given the extensive nature of DEI’s tendrils in its various programs, Consumers’ Research is unconvinced it has truly changed, citing various websites that appear to still be up, just hidden behind passwords so the outside world cannot corroborate what they really say. Vanderbilt also frames purported “climate care” as a health issue and has a special place of prominence in the “transitioning” world, given the now-famous 2022 exposé about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinic for Transgender Health, where Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said outright that “these surgeries make a lot of money,” kicking off much of the movement for reform.
Henry Ford Health, meanwhile, has a “DEI agenda [that] is so egregious that a nonprofit legal group filed an official complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in April 2025 calling for an investigation,” according to the report, and it too still commits underage “transitions,” per the aforementioned Caller report.
