Exclusive: The University of Michigan Will End Gender Affirming Care for Minors Amid Trump Admin Legal Onslaught

The Trump administration has a hospital system across the State of the University of Michigan concerning its provision of transgender health services for minors, sending a summons in recent weeks to the University of Michigan Health, TPM learned.

The survey prompted the university to suspend the care affirmed by the sexes in its hospitals for those under 19, the university told TPM in an exclusive declaration.

“The University of Michigan, including Michigan Medicine, is one of the multiple institutions across the country which has received a federal summons in the context of a criminal and civil investigation into the stated care for minors,” the statement said. “In the light of this survey, and taking into account the escalation of threats and external risks, we will no longer provide hormonal therapies affirming sex and puberty drugs for minors.”

For the Trump administration, the decision of the University of Michigan Health is a victory. In this case, federal officials have used the prospect of a long civil or criminal investigation to put pressure on the hospital system.

A familiar source with the University’s decision -making told TPM that the management of the University of Michigan Health had interpreted the quotation to appear as a threat which could presume criminal proceedings. According to the source, individual doctors have received a maintenance order so as not to destroy documents.

The GM did not respond to a request for comments.

The demand came in the form of an administrative assignment, according to the source. The request is similar to an assignment received by the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and initiated as a trial earlier this month, the source said.

According to an internal university note obtained by TPM, University of Michigan Health first received an assignment on July 14 which indicated that the Doj was pursuing a civil and criminal investigation.

MJ lawyers said they were investigating doctors suspected of having abused their authority to prescribe drugs, among other potential accusations, the source said. The source said that those in the University of Michigan health system had heard for a few weeks that they were then online.

“We recognize the severity and impact of this decision for our patients and our community. We work in close collaboration with all those affected, and we will constantly support the well-being of our patients, their families and our teams, ”added the hospital system in its declaration at TPM. “We are deeply grateful to our clinicians for their inflexible commitment to provide the highest quality care and to all the members of our team for their dedication to help our patients and support each other, while we sail these changes together.”

The targeting of the health system seems to be part of a broader salvo of the Trump administration, as it takes other measures to threaten hospitals to support themselves to provide affirmative care.

The FBI displayed a tip on X in early June, looking for names of “all hospitals, clinics or practitioners” “mutilate children under the guise of affirmative care.”

Trump’s DOJ announced on July 9 that he had sent more than 20 assignments to doctors and clinics “involved in carrying out transgender medical procedures on children.” University of Michigan Health received its assignment a few days later. The Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, the Pittsburgh University Medical Center and Uchicago medicine would have been among the institutions that have received assignments.

Michigan’s prosecutor General Dana Nessel joined a trial in several states on August 1 – two weeks after the health system of the University of Michigan received its assignment – to prevent the administration from using threats of criminal proceedings to restrict the care.

Significant evidence has emerged in recent weeks that the Trump administration is aggressively pursuing surveys on other transgender health care providers, especially for minors. An administrative assignment at the Philadelphia children’s hospital, tabled this month in a legal action brought by state prosecutors, seeks a wide range of documents relating to “puberty blockers”, “gender care” and other subjects related to transgender care. In this case, the assignment ordered the hospital to appear before the Consumer Protection branch of the DoJ.

He quoted a law which allows investigators to issue administrative assignments for investigations on federal offenses related to health care to be used in civil or criminal cases.

For administrators and clinicians of the University of Michigan Hospital System, this did not leave any clarity on how to retaliate: there is no criminal accusation for which they can defend, no new law or interpretation of federal rules to contest in court, the person underlined. All they have, said the person is the prospect of heavy legal costs and, for doctors, an imminent fear of potentially losing their medical licenses under the cloud of an endless investigation.

The University of Michigan was perhaps already at the speeds of the Trump administration, as it had targeted the hospital system on a separate problem linked to sex care earlier in summer.

In June, Trump’s HHS launched an investigation into the case of an assistant from a doctor in the health system of the University of Michigan who said that she had been dismissed after refusing to carry out affirmative care or to use favorite pronouns of patients under a religious exemption. The case of Valerie Kloosterman was taken over by the First Liberty Institute, a right of right lawyers who sits on the advisory council of the 2025 project.

“The survey will probe if the health system has policies in accordance with church amendments to accommodate health workers with religious beliefs or moral convictions which are contrary to certain procedures or certain health services programs,” the HHS civil rights office in a press release.

A federal judge rejected the trial of Kloosterman, judging that it should arbitrate. His lawyers appealed and the case is currently before the 6th circuit.

Rachel Crandall Crocker, co-founder of Transgender Michigan, told TPM that the university’s medical system is one of the two transgender health care providers in the state. Losing it will massively complicate the lives of transgender michiganders, she said.

“It would leave a big hole in the services,” said Crocker at TPM. “Many people would not be lucky.”

The emphasis on Michigan is only a front in an attack on an administration fixed on the creation of health care, legal protection and much heavier self-identification for the Trans community. His right -wing media allies have drawn hours of skirmishes content, contributing to the opening of public opinion on trans rights.

“The approach can now be described as deceptive, punitive and pervasive of the ability of adults to make their own health care decisions in consultation with their providers and, for young people, the privacy of parents, young people and their health suppliers, all informed by experience and expertise in the field,” said Suzanne Goldberg, said TPM.