Texas Children’s Hospital to create nation’s first clinic for detransitioners
Caroline MolloyTexas Children’s Hospital, the largest pediatric hospital in the U.S., has agreed to create what state officials described as the country’s first dedicated clinic for patients seeking to detransition after undergoing “gender-transition” procedures, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced May 15.
The clinic will be established as part of a settlement resolving a yearslong investigation by Paxton’s office and the U.S. Department of Justice into the Houston hospital’s former pediatric “gender-affirming care” program. The investigation began in 2023 after Texas enacted a law banning medical providers from facilitating “gender-transition” procedures for minors.
According to a press release from Paxton’s office, under the settlement, Texas Children’s will fund the new detransition clinic for its first five years of operation, offering medical care at no cost to patients during that period. The hospital will also pay more than $10 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false billings to secure insurance coverage for “gender-transition” procedures for children and terminate five doctors involved in the prior program.
In the release, Paxton described the clinic as a “first-of-its-kind” facility that will “provide free care to those who have been victimized by twisted, morally bankrupt transgender ideology.”
“Today is a monumental day in the fight to stop the radical transgender movement,” he said. “This historic settlement reflects an institutional and fundamental cultural shift away from radical ‘gender’ ideology.”
