Mount Sinai's Institutional Priorities: Gender Care for Minors, DEI Initiatives, and Documented Epstein Connections Under Scrutiny

A recent campaign by Consumers’ Research has spotlighted Mount Sinai Health System's pediatric gender services, diversity programs, and historical financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein, prompting questions about resource allocation in a major nonprofit hospital. The organization cites data from Do No Harm indicating 139 gender-related interventions on minors between 2019 and 2023 at Mount Sinai facilities. Mount Sinai operates the Keith Haring Youth Gender Center, which provides care for transgender and gender-diverse youth, including primary and specialty services, alongside its Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery offering hormone therapy and surgical interventions.

Independent reporting has corroborated Epstein's post-2008 conviction donations to Mount Sinai exceeding $250,000, with some estimates reaching over $300,000 across affiliated entities. Politico and CNN detailed special access Epstein received to physicians and resources, facilitated in part through connections like the Dubin family. In 2019, Mount Sinai publicly committed to redirecting an equivalent sum to anti-trafficking charities following disclosure of the gifts.

The hospital maintains an Institute for Health Equity Research and sustainability initiatives framed around reducing carbon footprints. These elements, combined with the gender care programs, form the basis of critiques regarding mission drift in taxpayer-supported nonprofits, though Mount Sinai has not issued a direct response to the latest campaign. Broader context includes evolving federal scrutiny of pediatric gender medicine, with recent HHS reports highlighting evidence limitations in such interventions.