Connecticut Children's Hospital has agreed to stop providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery to transgender minors as part of a settlement with the Trump administration, the Department of Justice announced. The settlement also includes an undisclosed monetary fine and a requirement to set aside $500,000 for what the DOJ describes as care for people affected by those treatments.
Connecticut Children's Hospital reaches settlement with Trump administration over gender-related treatments for minors
Connecticut Children's Hospital has agreed to stop providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery to transgender minors as part of a settlement with the Trump administration, the Department of Justice announced. The settlement also includes an undisclosed monetary fine and a requirement to set aside $500,000 for what the DOJ describes as care for people affected by those treatments.
The Department of Justice stated that the treatments in question violate federal law, referring to them as 'sex-rejecting procedures' in its announcement. The hospital and the medical field more broadly have typically described the same services as 'gender-affirming care.'
Connecticut Children's Hospital had already announced last year that it would wind down its youth gender-affirming services, a decision made alongside Yale-New Haven Health.
Under the settlement terms, the hospital must fully cease the treatments and reserve $500,000 for what the DOJ characterizes as 'medical care for people living with the harmful consequences of gender-affirming care.'
- The specific federal law or laws the DOJ claims were violated are not identified in the source.
- The amount of the monetary fine is undisclosed.
- No statement from Connecticut Children's Hospital explaining its position on the settlement or the underlying legal claims is included.
- No information is provided about the number of patients previously treated or how their ongoing care will be handled.
- Yale-New Haven Health's involvement in or response to this settlement is not addressed.
- No independent medical or legal expert commentary is included.