Along Sunset Boulevard in East Hollywood, a longstanding community health clinic for transgender youth and young adults will close its doors by next week, under growing pressure from President Donald Trump’s budget cuts.

Executives at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announced in June that its Center for Transyouth Health and Development , which provides gender-affirming care, including hormone therapy and surgeries, is shutting down by July 22.

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The hospital is one of the oldest, largest public providers of gender-affirming care, especially for lower-income patients, in the U.S.

The imminent closure follows Trump’s executive order, issued early on in his second term, for hospitals to end gender-affirm

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