The Dane County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution asking UW Health and Children’s Wisconsin to resume gender-affirming health care for transgender and gender diverse youth.
UW Health stopped the care on Jan. 14 due to a federal directive and the possibility of enforcement actions that could affect Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement.
“The loss of this healthcare has permanent, irreversible impacts on patients’ lives, and the decision to end it abruptly has caused real harm,” Supervisor Aria Trucios of District 9, who authored the resolution, said in a statement. “At no point has UW Health had a legal duty to cease providing this healthcare. We call on UW Health to put the wellbeing of their patients first by resuming care to the fullest extentpermitted by law.”
