DOJ Announces Deal With Mount Sinai Ending Pediatric Sex-Change Interventions

Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,

The Justice Department announced Friday an agreement with Mount Sinai Health System that ends the New York hospital network's provision of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures to minors.

Mount Sinai, one of the largest healthcare providers in New York, will stop those interventions, pay a monetary penalty, and dedicate $2 million to free medical care for people living with harmful consequences of treatments they received as children, the department said.

The deal is another product of a nationwide investigation into hospitals that performed gender transition procedures on children. Similar agreements have already been reached with Texas Children's Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Connecticut Children's Hospital.

Officials said Mount Sinai stayed cooperative, proactive, and solution-driven throughout the inquiry, they said, noting the multimillion-dollar commitment to detransition care.

"The Department of Justice is committed to holding accountable medical providers that violate federal law and endanger children through so-called gender-affirming care," Attorney General