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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation has agreed with the Justice Department to end all pediatric gender affirming care. They did this not because it was the moral thing to do, but because they were forced to by federal authorities.

Per the Justice Department:

Today, the Department of Justice announced another resolution arising from its ongoing national investigation into violations of federal law in connection with sex-rejecting procedures on minors (often euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care”). The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (“Cleveland Clinic”) has entered into agreements with the Department and the Ohio Attorney General that include a decades-long commitment to not perform or offer sex-rejecting procedures—which includes the administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones—for minors. Cleveland Clinic has also agreed to pay a monetary penalty and, in a landmark commitment, dedicate additional millions to help provide essential medical care for individuals living with the harmful consequences of such misguided medical interventions performed on them as children and adolescents (i.e., “detransitioners”).

It is a good thing this was done, but the problem is that it needed to be done in the first place. In a sane society, this would have never happened. Children would never have been subjected to these medically unnecessary procedures under the guise of affirming one's feelings, and to claim this will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in human history would be an understatement.

According to the terms of the agreements, which the Department reached in coordination with Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, Cleveland Clinic—a partner in other Administration priority initiatives—will 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. As part of the resolution, Cleveland Clinic has committed $2 million to provide restorative care for detransitioners—the very victims of these predatory and dangerous practices—regardless of their insured status or ability to pay.

While it is great that the detransitioners will get the help they rightfully deserve, the problem is that they were subjected to irreversible harm in the first place. To make it worse, the hospital fraudulently billed insurance companies to carry out their deranged scheme. It is unclear if they knew how barbaric these procedures are, or if the doctors are truly that stupid that they believed this model was biomedically ethical, so draw your own conclusions. Nonetheless, the damage has been done, and history will not look kindly on what these people have done.

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