Tish James has some nerve threatening hospitals that wont defy Trumps sex-change order

What chutzpah: State Attorney General Letitia James is threatening to file discrimination charges against hospitals that heed President Trump’s executive order on sex-change procedures for kids.Sorry, Tish: You’re not only wrong on the substance, for once you’re not the biggest bully in the room.Something she plainly realizes — since if she had the courage of any convictions, James would be suing the feds, not the poor hospitals caught in the middle.Hospitals that defy Trump’s order risk losing billions in federal funds — which would mean higher medical costs for all who use them.That’s why some medical providers, reportedly including NYU Langone Health, immediately began canceling appointments.Yet James claimed Monday that hospitals can’t comply without breaking New York law, huffing: “Withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law.” Wrong: No treatment will get withheld on the basis of a diagnosis or an “identity” (and no “cisgender” person will get access, since they don’t want such “services”); Trump’s order was strictly on the basis of age: No sex-change hormones or surgery for children, including teens.Also wrong: James’ promise that no one will lose funding because a judge ordered a temporary restraining order on Trump’s entirely separate freeze on some government aid.

(Easy for her to say, anyway: No funds she controls are at risk.)Most important: Trump is entirely right to halt these dangerous procedures, which will affect kids for the rest of their lives.Kids who are far too young to make such complex, life-altering decisions.There’s a reason multiple European countries have greatly restricted or outright banned sex-change treatment and puberty blockers for minors.Supposedly scientific studies claiming the procedures improve menta...