Kaiser Permanente, one of the country’s leading and largest health care providers, says it will suspend select gender-affirming care services for transgender patients younger than 19. The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, representing over 25,000 nurses at various Kaiser locations, released a statement Thursday criticizing the decision. With Kaiser now joining Stanford Medicine, the decision reduces opportunities for minors to receive critical surgeries and services due to federal pressure, according to the CNA. Lady Rainsard, a registered nurse in plastic surgery at Kaiser San Francisco, sees these decisions as a stark overreach of the government into health care. “Medical providers, not politicians, know what’s best for our patients,” Rainsard said. “Gender-affirming care is safe and effective.” “Right now, we deem it a much greater risk to cave to this kind of government overreach than it is to provide this care to our patients, no matter their age,” Rainsard saiid. Nurses and doctors are not the only ones decrying measures that block transgender care. On Wednesday, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, released a statement on Kaiser’s decision. “California law is clear: Health systems can’t deny care to trans people,” he said. “And this is a straight-up denial of care to youth who are under the care of a physician and whose parents have consented to the treatment.”
“As the legal and regulatory environment for gender-affirming care continues to evolve, we must carefully consider the significant risks being created for health systems, clinicians, and patients under the age of 19 seeking this care,” Kaiser officials said in a statement. Lisa Kim, senior manager of media relations at Stanford Medicine, sent a similarly worded statement on behalf of the healthcare provider. “After careful review of the latest actions and directives from the federal government and following consultations with clinical leadership, including our multidisciplinary LGBTQ+ program and its providers, Stanford Medicine paused providing certain gender-related surgical procedures for patients under the age of 19, effective June 2, 2025. We took this step to protect both our providers and patients,” according to the statement. In response to the policies, registered nurses from Kaiser Permanente held a vigil Friday in San Francisco to honor the transgender patients they feel are being failed.
*Demonic Genitle Mutilation for kids. Please call it what it is not their made up phrase to soften what it really is.
My son identifies at a firetruck. So he can’t get help with his “oil changes” anymore? Well Kaiser, we will see if you catch on fire if my son will help. Haha.
I can guarantee your son does not identify as a firetruck. Hyperbolic nonsense.
You can guarantee nothing, is this your child? how dare you assume that this poor child is not a firetruck!?!
That’s an outstanding job of totally missing the point, Jessica!
Kaiser wants money… Leave the children alone. Mental Illness and brain washing running rampant! today!. Children should not be obsessed with their body parts.
stupid people… setting kids up for adult suicide. let them mature their brains then let them chose when adults.
https://patriotpost.us/memes/119402-what-a-boy-needs-2025-07-25
If “gender” is only a Social construct……….why are people mutilating their bodies? Gender is NOT decided at birth………..it is simply OBSERVED.
So awesome that people with no medical training are making these decisiIns.
Because it has become about the money and NOT about science or the best interest of the patients. When you have too many people who are in healthcare who are making too much money off of these terrible treatments for kids, then of course they want them to continue. Just because someone has medical training does NOT mean they are not corruptible. Don’t even get me started as to WHY they rebranded alcoholism as a disease instead of just an addiction. Hint: it was to get more money and have insurance pay for it. Do YOU know all the science? Because I do. These things are a business. The medical system does NOT care about people, just making money off of us.
Singed,
Someone with medical training
The promotion of transgenderism is nothing less than soft-power eugenics.
It’s called common sense Ken have you heard of it?
Yoyohop, what?
And bddp, common sense? Medical know-how is not common sense, hence all the training. Why should laymen be making medical decisions for others? Have you even read “their” medical files?
@ken – Mutilating children is criminal medical malpractice, regardless of the training
Exactly and thank you for pointing out the obvious that even a roob like myself would know but I guess Ken didn’t get that memo…
and the response is from people that can’s spell Decisilns (decisions) ? cool!
People who support this barbarity should not be allowed in any medical profession. And anyone who actually participates in mutilating children should never breathe free air again!
Kaiser did the right thing.
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WHY did the psychological, chemical and physical mutilation of our youth
become acceptable in our society ? ? ?
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“A high school history teacher in California has admitted to helping students
change their gender identity without their parents’ knowledge.”
https://tinyurl.com/yyhebnkx
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill that prohibits school districts from having policies that require parents to be notified if their child identifies as transgender.
https://tinyurl.com/2wdct4jc
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‘Democrats in California are now in the business of creating a crisis,
then providing perverted and distorted ‘solutions’
https://tinyurl.com/m4abayk6
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Gender Reassignment Surgery Market Size to Hit USD 5.51 Bn by 2034https://tinyurl.com/3hr2kx2w
WHY is a political party supporting the movement ? ? ? ?
For what gain ? ? . . . . . . . . . . . CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS ? ? ?
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“If you want to understand any problem in America,
you need to look at who profits from that problem,
not at who suffers from that problem.”
–Dr. Amos Wilson
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Definitely something you should be aware of https://tinyurl.com/3p6ntunn
Seems like they have some form of issue.With adults making the Decision… We know that Scott Wiener usually only relates to, and represents, one narrow view of any issue.
I don’t know what any of this even means.
Christ I’m old.
Don’t worry about it, just a stale fart in the wind!
Child molesters (and child mutilators) should serve a short life sentence.