{"id":338583,"date":"2026-09-05T03:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338583\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T03:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:49:02","slug":"mount-sinai-reaches-deal-with-trump-doj-to-end-gender-affirming-care-for-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338583\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mount Sinai Health System reached a deal with the Trump administration to end gender-affirming care for minors in order to resolve a federal investigation into the hospital\u2019s practices, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.<\/p>\n

According to the announcement, Mount Sinai will also pay a \u201cmonetary penalty\u201d and will allocate $2 million to provide free medical services to patients suffering from what the DOJ described as the \u201charmful consequences\u201d of care they received at Mount Sinai as children. The DOJ said it was investigating potential violations of federal law by Mount Sinai but did not share the conclusions of that investigation.<\/p>\n

Gothamist previously reported<\/a> that Mount Sinai stopped providing services such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to trans and gender-non-conforming children earlier this year, but the health system never made a formal announcement.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Friday evening, a spokesperson for Mount Sinai said that the hospital entered into the settlement \u201cso that Mount Sinai will not be compelled to produce these highly sensitive patient records to the grand jury.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe entered into this settlement to protect our patients\u2019 privacy and to allow our physicians to remain focused on our mission of serving our patients and communities with the highest-quality, world-class care,\u201d Mount Sinai spokesperson Lucia L. Lee said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration, including Texas Children\u2019s Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Connecticut Children\u2019s Hospital, the DOJ said.<\/p>\n

The announcement follows other efforts by the Trump administration to force hospitals to discontinue their treatment of children and teens with gender dysphoria. Earlier this year, the Trump administration subpoenaed Mount Sinai and NYU Langone to hand over the public health data of any minor who received gender-affirming care at the hospitals over the past six years. However, the White House\u2019s actions were later blocked<\/a> in court.<\/p>\n

The DOJ said Mount Sinai had been \u201ccooperative\u201d with the White House, which it said was evident in its \u201cmultimillion-dollar commitment to detransition care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department of Justice is committed to holding accountable medical providers that violate federal law and endanger children through so-called gender-affirming care,\u201d said U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. \u201cThis agreement puts an end to these practices at Mount Sinai and provides meaningful relief for individuals who have already suffered harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office said it is reviewing the settlement. Separately, earlier this week James and a coalition of other state AGs sued the Trump administration over a rule blocking states from receiving federal Medicaid and Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program for gender-affirming care provided to adolescents.<\/p>\n

Mount Sinai patient Quincy May Cavanagh said she found the health system\u2019s actions \u201ccowardly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cavanagh, now a 21-year-old college student, said she began receiving estrogen from the hospital as a treatment for her gender dysphoria at 17 and it had an immediate, positive impact on her mood and demeanor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really able to make a change that just drastically improved my life,\u201d Cavanagh said.<\/p>\n

She added that she\u2019s glad she started at 17 before she underwent \u201cpermanent masculinization\u201d but wishes she had gotten the process underway sooner, since she became aware of being transgender in middle school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m a real person who really benefited from this care, and now there’s gonna be real people just like me who are not gonna be able to get it,\u201d Cavanagh said.<\/p>\n

Allie Bohm, senior policy counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union said it was disturbing that Mount Sinai “capitulated to the Trump regime and inked an agreement suspending gender-affirming care for transgender young people.”<\/p>\n

“Gender-affirming care helps people live as their authentic selves, and can be lifesaving,” she said in a statement. “Our state\u2019s hospitals and providers have both a moral and legal obligation to provide needed healthcare to all patients, including trans youth.”<\/p>\n

NEW Pride Agenda Executive Director Kei Williams said the group rejects the inflammatory language and false narrative the DOJ is utilizing to spread misinformation.<\/p>\n

“Gender-affirming care is exactly that: essential, evidence-based healthcare utilized by people across ages, economic backgrounds, and gender identities,” Williams said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis settlement underscores a growing threat here in New York. If hospitals and providers stop offering gender-affirming care because they fear federal investigations, funding threats, or political retribution, access disappears,” Williams said.<\/p>\n

This story was updated with comments from Mount Sinai, NYCLU and NEW Pride Agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mount Sinai Health System reached a deal with the Trump administration to end gender-affirming care for minors in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-338583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}