TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 23, 2026

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is discontinuing gender-related surgeries for transgender adults, the Tennessean reports. The hospital cited “operational limitations and lack of surgical coverage” for ending one of its few remaining medical services for transgender patients. It will continue nonsurgical gender care for adults 19 and older. Vanderbilt’s transgender health clinic was at the center of a legal battle in 2023 over the release of patient medical records. The Tennessee attorney general’s office opened an investigation into the clinic’s comprehensive health records, and patients later sued Vanderbilt for sharing detailed records with the office, settling with the hospital last September.