Cleveland Clinic Halts Transgender Medical Treatments of Minors in DOJ Settlement

The clinic is devoting $2 million to ‘restorative care’—probably too low to cover claims of harm, critics said, while lauding the clinic’s promised 20-year ban.

Protesters opposing medical transgender procedures for youths gather at the American Academy of Pediatrics convention in Anaheim, Calif., on Oct. 7, 2022. Courtesy of TreVoices.Org/Scott Newgent

In a deal that federal prosecutors called historic, Ohio’s world-renowned Cleveland Clinic has agreed to a self-imposed 20-year ban on “sex-rejecting” procedures for minors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on June 5.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation will also set up a $2 million “restorative care” fund to aid those claiming harm from gender-related surgeries and medications. In addition, the clinic will pay a $308,000 penalty “to resolve allegations regarding false billings submitted to public and private payors to secure insurance coverage” for those procedures, a DOJ statement reads.