NYU Langone settles with DOJ, ends transgender care for minors and pays $8.5 million
NYU Langone agreed to discontinue gender-affirming treatment for patients under 18 and to pay $8.5 million to resolve a Justice Department investigation.
After a brief legal dispute, NYU Langone consented to end its gender-affirming care program for minors and to remit $8.5 million to the Justice Department. The settlement spares the hospital from handing over medical records but requires the complete shutdown of the service. Hospital officials maintain that they did not admit liability and view the resolution as safeguarding patients and providers.
This move makes NYU Langone the second New York health system, after Mount Sinai, to strike such a deal, joining other institutions like the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Texas Children’s Hospital. Federal officials praised the settlement as a step toward protecting children, while New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned it as political interference in private medical decisions. The state attorney general’s office is reviewing the agreement.
Why it matters
The settlement ends a controversial medical service for trans youth and signals expanding federal pressure on hospitals nationwide.
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