Two major Virginia hospital systems are suspending gender-affirming care for minors in response to directives from the White House and state officials.

VCU and UVA Health — two of the state's largest hospital systems — have stopped providing gender-affirming care to patients under age 19 to comply with President Trump's executive order. Why it matters: They're among the first in the country to do it as hospitals nationwide grapple with the administration's attacks against transgender people,

UVA and VCU are cowering in the face of a directive from Attorney General Jason Miyares to stop providing gender-affirming healthcare to trans minors.

In the memo obtained by 8News, Miyares said that, given the terms of the executive order, the "chemical and surgical mutilation of children must end immediately."