EXCLUSIVE: Blue State Hospital Bows To DOJ, Ends Trans Procedures For Kids

WASHINGTON—Connecticut Children’s Medical Center has entered an agreement with the Justice Department not to perform transgender procedures on children, The Daily Wire can first report.

The move comes as part of the Justice Department’s nationwide effort to end transgender pediatric programs, building on President Donald Trump’s executive order ending federal support for such procedures on children.

Connecticut Children’s agreed not to perform “sex-rejecting procedures on minors,” including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries, according to documents shared with The Daily Wire. The hospital also agreed to pay a monetary penalty and, significantly, to “dedicate” $500,000 in medical care for detransitioners, people living through the mental and physical aftereffects of so-called “gender-affirming care.”

“The Department of Justice will stop at nothing to protect America’s children,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. “This resolution is a reminder to hospitals, medical providers, and pharmaceutical companies that the Justice Department will vigorously enforce federal law, especially where the lives of children are endangered.”

Over the past five years, many young people have come forward with tragic stories of the mental and physical anguish that attempted gender transition procedures have caused them. The Trump administration argues that these procedures are incredibly harmful to minors, and that medical professionals promoting them are harming children.

The DOJ previously reached similar agreements with Texas Children’s Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The Justice Department specifically praised the latter hospital for taking “significant steps” to help the DOJ with its investigation, remaining “cooperative, proactive, and solution-driven” throughout the process. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation also committed to giving financial restorative care to victims, the DOJ said.

The DOJ’s Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, Brett Shumate, vowed that the agency “cannot and will not rest in our pursuit of justice for the victims of these discredited practices,” calling the agreements between the DOJ and the hospitals encouraging.

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould promised that the DOJ will “act swiftly and decisively” to protect children from “unsafe medical practices” that violate federal law.

The president’s executive order directed the DOJ to review how it enforces Section 116 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code on genital mutilation, to convene attorneys general and other law enforcement to enforce this law, to promote legislation enacting a private right of action for kids and their parents who have endured these harmful practices, and, among other actions, to “prioritize investigations and take appropriate action to end child-abusive practices by so-called sanctuary States that facilitate stripping custody from parents who support the healthy development of their own children, including by considering the application of the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act and recognized constitutional rights.”