The Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained an agreement with Connecticut Children’s Medical Center last week, with the hospital consenting to stop performing damaging, sex-rejecting procedures on minors.
The deal, which the department revealed on August 5, requires Connecticut Children’s to:
Cease providing sex-rejecting surgeries, opposite-sex hormones and puberty blocking drugs to minors.
Pay an unspecified monetary penalty.
“Dedicate an additional $500,000 in medical care for individuals living with the harmful consequences of ‘gender-affirming care.’”
In exchange, federal officials agree not to prosecute the hospital for alleged crimes committed while administering sex-rejecting procedures to minors.
“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,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward wrote of the agreement in a press release.
Connecticut Children’s is the third hospital enter an agreement with the DOJ since April 2025, when the department began investigating federal crimes related to hospitals and doctors performing “transgender” medical interventions on children.
The department entered its first, groundbreaking agreement with Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) on May 15, 2026.
TCH gained national infamy in 2023 after whistleblower Eithan Haim revealed the hospital had secretly continued performing sex-rejecting procedures on minors after publicly claiming to stop such interventions.
A second whistleblower, nurse practitioner Vanessa Sivadge, alleged some TCH patients illegally paid for sex-rejecting procedures using Texas’ Medicaid program. A subsequent federal probe into the hospital by the House Oversight Committee investigated “[concerns] that medical providers at TCH are falsifying diagnosis codes for patients seeking gender transition care to obtain Medicaid payment for noncovered services.”
In the May 15 agreement between the DOJ, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and TCH, the hospital agreed to:
Stop providing sex-rejecting surgeries, opposite-sex hormones and puberty blocking drugs to minors.
Fire and de-credential five doctors who performed sex-rejecting procedures on minors.
Pay $10 million in damages and civil penalties to “resolve allegations” it committed insurance fraud to pay for “transgender” medical interventions.
The settlement also required TCH establish a clinic dedicated to caring for detransitioners. The hospital will cover all costs of the clinic for five years, per Attorney General Paxton.
In exchange, the DOJ agreed not to prosecute TCH for allegedly:
Stealing taxpayer money to fund sex-rejecting procedures for minors.
Misleading minors and their families about the long-term effects of sex-rejecting procedures.
Less than a month later, on June 5, the DOJ secured a “decades-long” agreement with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation to cease providing “transgender” surgeries, wrong-sex hormones and puberty blockers to minors.
The agreement also required the hospital:
Pay $308,000 to “resolve allegations regarding false billings submitted to public and private payors to secure insurance coverage for sex-rejecting procedures on minors.”
Commit $2 million to provide “restorative care” to detransitioners, “regardless of their insured status or ability to pay.”
Unlike previous agreements, the DOJ does not specify which alleged crimes Connecticut Children’s could have been prosecuted for. We do, however, know what crimes the department is focused on.
On April 22, 2025, former-Attorney General Pam Bondi released an internal memo establishing the Federal and State Coalition Against Child Mutilation. The coalition helps fulfill President Trump’s earlier executive order, “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” which directed the attorney general to begin investigating crimes related to performing “transgender” medical interventions on children.
“Through this Coalition,” Bondi wrote, “I will partner with state attorneys general to identify leads, share intelligence and build cases against hospitals and practitioners violating federal or state laws banning female genital mutilation and other, related practices.”
The memo instructed coalition members to specifically investigate:
Instances of doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies misleading parents and children about the effects of sex-rejecting procedures.
Instances of doctors fraudulently billing federal programs to cover sex-rejecting procedures for minors.
The DOJ’s settlements with Connecticut Children’s, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and TCH are the first fruits of more than a year of hard work investigating crimes committed in service of dangerous, damaging gender ideology.
The Daily Citizen thanks everyone involved in hastening its demise.
Additional Articles and Resources
DOJ Announces Cleveland ‘Gender Clinic Will Now Offer Help to Detransitioners
Texas Children’s Hospital Settles with Feds for Performing Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Minors
HHS Ceases Medicaid, CHIP Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Kids
HHS Will Block Hospitals From Performing Sex-Rejecting, Mutilating Procedures on Children
18 States Sue HHS for Protecting Children From Sex-Rejecting Procedures
HHS Finalizes Report Finding Sex-Rejecting Procedures Harm Minors
HHS Releases Report on harms of ‘Transgender’ Medical interventions for Minors
President Trump Signs Order Protecting Children From Transgender Medical Interventions
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