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While most Catholic hospitals already refrain from offering transgender surgeries and hormonal interventions, the vote means that the bishops will move to formalize such bans.
Catholic hospitals are on track to begin banning gender-transition surgery and other medical procedures for transgender people after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops unanimously voted to revise the church's health care guidelines.
During their spring assembly this week, Catholic bishops in the United States will vote on whether to amend official healthcare directives to prohibit Catholic facilities from offering services that affirm trans-identified individuals' perceptions about their sex.
A health sharing group urges U.S. bishops to stop Catholic hospitals from performing transgender sex-change operations on young people.
Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. are going to to vote this week on issuing guidance to Catholic hospitals prohibiting transgender procedures and puberty-blocking drugs.