Opponents of “gender transition” surgeries on minors applauded a Justice Department settlement with at least six major hospitals to stop the practice.
The Department of Justice has announced settlements with six hospitals, the New York Times reported, to stop doing the surgeries and hormone treatments for minors.
“The Department of Justice has done incredible work in driving healthcare providers to end experimental transgender treatments on minors,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer of Do No Harm said in a statement Wednesday. “Nearly two dozen systematic reviews have found no credible evidence supporting these interventions. Meanwhile, the known or expected harms are significant, including infertility, cardiovascular disease, and surgical complications, among others.”
Texas Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Mount Sinai Health System, and most recently, New York University Langone Hospital, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital reached separate agreements with the DOJ, the Times reported.
As part of the individual agreements, several of the hospitals will even provide free medical care to former patients who wish to detransition. Although the hospitals agreed to stop the procedures and pay certain federal fines, they admitted to no wrongdoing.
“No child should be exposed to so-called ‘gender-affirming’ care and the irreversible effects that many of these interventions can have,” Miceli added.
The group Consumers’ Research has been critical of federal and state tax dollars going to nonprofit hospitals that push gender ideology.
“Nonprofit hospitals that embrace a radical political agenda over their core mission of patient care must be held accountable,” Will Hild, executive director of Consumers’ Research, said in a statement Wednesday.
He praised the Justice Department’s investigation of the hospitals and added, “These woke hospitals need to be held responsible for putting politics over patients.”
However, Eliel Cruz, co-founder of the Gender Liberation Movement, told The Associated Press, “It’s a really dangerous precedent when the federal government is allowed to politicize any one group of people’s care and end it.”
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