WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated news Thursday that multiple hospitals have halted their transgender procedures for children, telling reporters that President Donald Trump “wants to protect the innocence of children.”

Leavitt highlighted news that the largest provider of so-called “gender-affirming care,” the Center for Trans Youth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, is closing in response to the Trump administration’s promise to cut federal funding for institutions that are transitioning children.

That program is one of a number that are shutting down or halting the irreversible treatments for children — Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center “paused” puberty blocker and hormone replacement therapy for children, according to policy documents covered by a local outlet.

Asked by The Daily Wire during the White House press briefing on Thursday if the nation should expect to see more closures, Leavitt responded: “The president spoke a lot about this issue, which is a political issue, but also really a cultural issue that impacts children and families. He talked about it a lot on the campaign, and I think he was quite surprised by the uptick we were seeing in the embracement by the Democrat Party when it comes to the chemical castration and mutilation of young, innocent bodies.”

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 17: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calls on reporters during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“The president made it a very early priority to sign very strong executive orders to cut off the funding for any hospital or any medical facility in this country that provides such barbaric procedures,” Leavitt stressed. “And, as a result of that strong policy and the president’s strong common sense position on this issue, we’ve had such an overwhelming response, which is great for children …”

The White House press secretary then listed off a number of these hospitals that have halted their transgender programs for children.

“Phoenix Children’s Hospital has stopped providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors,” she said. “In California, Stanford Medicine ended sex change surgeries for minors. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is closing its center for Trans Youth Health and Development surgical program. In Illinois, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago stopped sex change surgeries.”

“Again, let’s think about what we’re talking about here,” Leavitt told the assembled reporters. “Sex change surgeries for minors. These are barbaric practices that no children, no child, innocent child should have to endure.”

“The president wants to protect the innocence of children, and I know the vast majority of Americans support him in that effort,” she added. “This is a wildly popular and common sense endeavor this administration has taken, and we’ve seen many of these medical institutions have followed through with the president’s executive orders, but we’ll continue to take further action on this important issue.”

President Trump’s bold executive actions are protecting American children from irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation and the facilities that offer these barbaric services are shutting down as a result.

Thanks to President Trump, gender ideology insanity is over. pic.twitter.com/ZvXALDaQae

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) July 17, 2025

In an X post following the briefing, Leavitt again celebrated the news, tweeting: “President Trump’s bold executive actions are protecting American children from irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation and the facilities that offer these barbaric services are shutting down as a result.”

“Thanks to President Trump,” she added, “gender ideology insanity is over.”

For a brief period of time after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, there was talk of the Democratic Party finally learning from the clear lesson taught by the American people. But in the eight months since the election, Democrats have shown that they didn’t learn anything, and they’re just as annoying and woke as ever. 

From their attacks on Trump’s immigration agenda and ICE agents to their defense of socialism and massive government spending, liberals are doubling down on all of the things that sent them to the woodshed on November 5, 2024. 

Crying over Deportations

Throughout the entire 2024 campaign, Trump was clear on his goal to conduct the largest deportation operation in American history, and a majority of voters approved of the plan, giving Trump the mandate to get cracking on booting illegal immigrants from the country. Instead of adjusting their position on deportations to fit with the will of the people, Democrats just cried about the issue even louder. 

Leftists’ temper tantrums over deportations have also turned into referring to ICE agents as “Nazi thugs” and a “modern-day Gestapo.” 

Democrats’ rhetoric on the issue has been blasted by the Trump administration, which has pointed to an 800% increase in violence toward immigration agents, including armed assaults on Border Patrol and ICE officers. 

Leftist protesters and rioters opposing the ICE operations have also clashed with police officers and agents and impeded law enforcement duties. Talk about annoying … and dangerous! One Arizona sheriff summed it up perfectly: “They don’t have individual thought, they have group think.”

Defending Massive Government Spending on Wokeness

Another main goal for the Trump administration has been to strip out unnecessary government spending and dismantle wasteful government agencies and programs. Of course, this too riled up the Democrats, who couldn’t bear the thought of people in Iraq going without their own Sesame Street and people in Africa going without birth control (yes, those were real things your government was spending money on). 

Most recently, Democrats are upset that the Left-leaning National Public Radio’s government funding is also getting axed. Yeah, the same NPR that said it wasn’t going to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 because it didn’t “want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.” 

And it gets worse. In 2024, NPR ran a Valentine’s Day segment on “queer animals.” Two years prior, it discussed the  “whole community of genderqueer dinosaur enthusiasts” and “trans-ceratops.” Yep, those are your tax dollars hard at work over at NPR. 

Did Democrats admit that maybe NPR went a little overboard on the leftism? Nope! Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-WI) claimed that NPR is vital for public safety, saying that it’s important for “emergency alerts, disaster updates, the weather and other reliable news.” Sure, Tammy. Because everyone you know only ever listens to NPR for breaking news. 

Pushing Socialism

Leftists already have their attention on the next round of elections in 2025 and 2026. Common sense would suggest that this time around, they’ll push more moderate candidates … but Democrats aren’t big fans of common sense. Instead, they’re pushing a radical socialist (possibly full-blown Marxist?) candidate in this year’s New York City mayoral race, while socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traveled the country on a “Fight the Oligarchy” tour, seeking to stir up the leftist base for the Democratic Party. 

“Assemblymember [Zohran] Mamdani has demonstrated a real ability on the ground to put together a coalition of working-class New Yorkers that is strongest to lead the pack,” AOC said in her endorsement, which helped lead Mamdani to a Democratic primary victory last month. 

Even after the Red Wave that pushed Trump and Republicans over the top in 2024, Democrats keep whining about conservative policies and running to the Left. And then they wonder why Americans reject their craziness.

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