Federal youth-care agreements now span six major hospital systems
Connecticut, Federal, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas
At least six major hospital systems have reached agreements with the U.S. Department of Justice that commit them to stop providing specified puberty blockers, hormones, or surgeries as gender-affirming care to patients under 19, according to the Associated Press. The systems are Texas Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, Connecticut Children’s Hospital, Mount Sinai Health System, NYU Langone, and UPMC.
TransEscape previously reported the recent NYU Langone and UPMC agreements. The new AP account documents the wider pattern and says Mount Sinai was the only system among the six that had not previously announced its decision. Hospitals in Texas and Ohio had already stopped care under state bans; others had announced policy changes amid federal pressure. None admitted wrongdoing.
These are provider-specific agreements, not a nationwide law, and gender-affirming care remains available from other hospitals, clinics, and individual physicians. Even so, using investigations, payment demands, and threats involving patient records to push hospitals out of medically necessary care is a dangerous federal campaign against trans young people and their families.
Read the Associated Press report on the six hospital agreements.