A children’s hospital in Connecticut has become the third hospital in the U.S. to end its child-mutilating gender transition services at the behest of the Department of Justice, The Daily Wire reported Wednesday. Connecticut Children’s Medical Center has also promised to allocate $500,000 in medical care for those who have been harmed by the procedures.

Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward emphasized that it is the priority of the DOJ to ensure the safety of children. “The Department of Justice will stop at nothing to protect America’s children. This resolution is a reminder to hospitals, medical providers, and pharmaceutical companies that the Justice Department will vigorously enforce federal law, especially where the lives of children are endangered.”

The development comes amid the Trump administration’s push to stop transgender procedures on children, starting with President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order to block federal funding for puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgical procedures for minors. 

“The underlying threat to hospitals of medical malpractice cases is definitely giving hospitals genuine headaches and financial concerns. I have concerns, however, that children’s gender clinics only represent 7.7% of gender affirming care,” Walt Heyer, a senior fellow at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. For eight years, Heyer identified as a transgender woman and underwent gender reassignment surgery, before committing his life to Christ and detransitioning. 

Other hospitals that have also stopped carrying out gender transition procedures recently include Texas Children’s Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. 

After Cleveland Clinic agreed to stop its transgender procedures on children, Brett Shumate, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Division, expressed gratitude but also added, “Our work is far from over, and our division will continue to work tirelessly to protect America’s children and hold accountable those that have preyed on vulnerable children, whether they be pharmaceutical companies or medical providers.”

Texas Children’s and Cleveland Clinic have both agreed to open clinics to offer services and support to detransitioners. Connecticut Children’s also pledged to “dedicate” $500,000 toward medical care for detransitioners. The DOJ said in a press release that Connecticut Children’s remained “cooperative, proactive, and solution-driven” while forming the agreement to cancel transgender services for minors. 

Despite the encouraging development, Heyer issued a word of caution on what the future of gender transition procedures could hold.

“There is the potential for hospitals to pivot away from the 7.7% and expand their gender clinics to perform the harmful gender affirming care on the other 90% that are not children, which could be far more lucrative than the children ever were, sadly,” Heyer warned. “The children will just wait until they are 19-year-olds and go back to the gender clinic for the same procedures, so it becomes temporary protection only. I will get excited when no gender affirming care is preformed anymore by any hospital in the United States. That is what needs to happen to eradicate it.”

In the meantime, new legislation on Capitol Hill is seeking to keep the ball rolling on eradicating gender transition procedures on minors. Recently, the Chloe Cole Act was introduced in the House of Representatives, a bill that would “strengthen legal protections for minors, ensures accountability within the medical system, and provides an avenue for individuals and families to pursue justice where harm has occurred under the guise of so-called ‘gender affirming care,’” according to a press release from the office of Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.). 

Cole is a 22-year-old woman who fell victim to transgender ideology at age 12, undergoing a double mastectomy at age 15. At age 16, Cole began the process of detransitioning and is now a born-again Christian. 

“While we’ve made significant strides in raising awareness and enacting protections in recent years, the fight is far from over. Too many children remain at risk of irreversible harm from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures pushed on them before they can fully understand the consequences,” Cole underscored in Onder’s press release. “We must finish what we’ve started and safeguard the next generation from these experimental and barbaric treatments.”