Mount Sinai Hospital agrees to halt gender-affirming care for minors following DOJ settlement
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has agreed to stop providing gender-affirming procedures, including hormonal therapy and surgeries, to minors after entering a settlement with the Department of Justice. The agreement includes a monetary penalty and a $2 million fund for free medical care for individuals who say they were harmed by transgender treatments received as children. The settlement is part of a broader DOJ investigation that has now reached agreements with several major hospitals, including Texas Children's Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Connecticut Children's Hospital.
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Mount Sinai, one of New York City's largest hospital systems, agreed to halt gender-affirming procedures for minors after reaching a settlement with the Trump administration's Department of Justice. The agreement was confirmed by the DOJ and acknowledged by Mount Sinai in a statement to the New York Times.
Mount Sinai's Institute for Advanced Medicine reported seeing 4,931 transgender and gender-diverse patients in 2025, though the hospital has not publicly disclosed how many of those patients were minors receiving surgical or hormonal procedures, according to Fox News Digital, the sole source reporting this story.
Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement that the agreement "puts an end to these practices at Mount Sinai and provides meaningful relief for individuals who have already suffered harm." Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate described the treatments as "discredited" and said the department would continue pursuing similar agreements at other institutions.