The University of Virginia (UVA) Board of Visitors (BOV) adopted a resolution ending transgender-related medical practices for new patients, Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announced Friday.
“Common sense and medical ethics have prevailed. I’m grateful to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors for its action today to stop harmful transgender treatments for minors and to transfer existing patients to other providers,” Youngkin said, while also sharing a post from CBS 19 News reporter Sarah Allen that included a copy of the resolution.
The resolution determined that current transgender patients could continue to receive treatment but new patients would have to be ” referred to alternate private healthcare providers until further notice.” Current patients could also be referred to private healthcare facilities.
UVA Health also announced the BOV’s decision. The BOV’s vote “reaffirms our commitment to offer our patients the best care we can, in accordance with state and federal law,” UVA Health said in part. (RELATED: THE WPATH TAPES: Behind-The-Scenes Recordings Reveal What Top Gender Doctors Really Think About Sex Change Procedures)
Common sense and medical ethics have prevailed. I’m grateful to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors for its action today to stop harmful transgender treatments for minors and to transfer existing patients to other providers. https://t.co/b5BFVKENtA
— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) February 21, 2025
The resolution follows President Donald Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order prohibiting or limiting “the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another” and “protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation” which “sometimes is referred to as ‘gender affirming care.’”
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares issued a memo to UVA and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) health systems Jan. 30 instructing that “chemical and surgical mutilation of children must end immediately” in line with Trump’s executive order or risk losing federal funding, 8News WRIC Richmond reported.
Both university health systems complied, according to The White House. UVA’s leadership complied without consulting with the BOV but reversed course Feb. 13 — again without consulting with the BOV — once the executive order was stayed in federal court, according to the BOV’s resolution.
The reversal prompted the BOV to assert its “authority to make regulations and policies for the University” by passing the resolution and warning against any decision-making without consultation with the BOV.
UVA witnessed anti-Trump protests lasting an hour and a half late Monday, organized by Indivisible Charlottesville — a chapter of the anti-Trump grassroots political organization “Indivisible,” according to UVA’s student newspaper The Cavalier Daily.
A cohort of UVA medical students wrote an op-ed Tuesday in The Cavalier Daily protesting against the executive order and Miyares’s memo.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
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