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UPMC’s settlement should end the myth that pediatric gender medicine is ‘settled science’ | Opinion

The settlement also resolves a billing probe and includes privacy protections and non-prosecution terms for patients, guardians, providers and employees, UPMC said.

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Last week, six major hospital systems — including UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh — reached settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice. They agreed to stop providing what the DOJ refers to as “sex-rejecting procedures,” including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries to patients under 19 years of age. Some will pay fines to the government. Several of the deals, though not all, also require the hospitals to fund care for former patients for harms these procedures are known to cause: infertility, bone loss, sexual dysfunction, and surgical complications, and help for those who want to stop the hormones and undo what can still be undone. That is not “banning healthcare.” That is the Trump administration treating a protocol that can sterilize children as the scandal it always was.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette broke the news in Pittsburgh, United States on Sunday, September 27, 2026.
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