The Cleveland Clinic will allocate $2 million towards services aimed at reversing transgender procedures done on patients before they turned 19, according to a new settlement between the healthcare giant, the Justice Department, and the state of Ohio.
The settlement, announced last week, requires the Cleveland Clinic to no longer offer transgender procedures for minors.
The hospital must also pay the federal government $300,000 and the state of Ohio $8,000 to resolve a lawsuit accusing the clinic of falsely labeling transgender procedures in its medical billing codes. The clinic has denied all wrongdoing.
“Cleveland Clinic’s commitment to providing millions of dollars towards care for detransitioners is emblematic of just that.”
Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Brett Shumate said institutions like Cleveland Clinic and Texas Children’s have “decided to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”
The detransition services to be provided include medical care for hormonal balancing, surgical revision and reconstruction, fertility treatments, and mental health support.
The clinic must also create a website, appoint a designated care coordinator, and take steps to advertise the services.
A similar settlement reached with Texas Children’s Hospital last month required the creation of the first-ever “detransitioner clinic.” In recent years, detransitioners such as Chloe Cole and others have filed lawsuits going after the doctors who pushed them into medicalizing their gender confusion.
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said the resolution “puts these providers on notice that this Department will vigorously enforce federal law where children are put at risk.”
The Justice Department praised the Cleveland Clinic in its announcement of the settlement, saying it “remained cooperative, proactive, and solution-driven” throughout the process.
The clinic told The Daily Wire it was pleased to have worked collaboratively toward a resolution related to “an unintentional coding issue involving a small number of patients.”
The settlement was criticized by leftist activist organizations, with the ACLU of Ohio saying it was “deeply saddened” by the agreement.
Transgender procedures on children have been banned in Ohio since August 2024 after a ruling from a judge allowed its prohibition to go into effect.
