Sutter Health has recently announced it will no longer provide interventions for gender dysphoria.
Greg Burt of the California Family Council says the HHS report thoroughly discredited such treatments it its peer-reviewed report.
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's the HHS secretary, you know, he called this not medicine. It's malpractice, and I'm glad the federal government is finally standing up to these really big medical organizations.”
According to a 2025 ranking of U.S. health systems, Sutter, which serves roughly 3.5 million patients and employs more than 57,000, ranks among the top 20 health systems nationally. It’s currently worth $18.2 billion.
Burt reports California's Attorney General Rob Bonta is falsely contending California law protects such interventions. He says Sutter and other medical institutions aren't buying it.
“He's going around threatening healthcare facilities that they have to provide these treatments as some kind of equal rights issue. But really, these hospitals realize that the bigger threat is not from the attorney general. The bigger threat is from the children themselves."
At the same time, the pro-trans activist group Rainbow Families Action (RFA) has published an open letter condemning Sutter's decision, calling it "unconscionably cruel."
The interventions are scheduled to end Wednesday.
An announcement in late November left trans families little time to prepare for “an unnecessary and destabilizing disruption to essential, evidence-based medical care,” RFA reported.
