Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas will receive the nation’s first detransition clinic through a settlement reached with Texas Children’s Hospital, which requires the entity to establish the clinic.
The Detransition Clinic will help patients reverse the damages caused by ideologically-driven doctors who participated in transitioning individuals. “For the first five years, all services provided through the Detransition Clinic will be funded by Texas Children’s and be free of charge to patients,” Paxton’s office said. The move comes after a years-long investigation by the Healthcare Program Enforcement Division.
“Today is a monumental day in the fight to stop the radical transgender movement. This historic settlement reflects an institutional and fundamental cultural shift away from radical ‘gender’ ideology. In addition to helping establish the first-ever Detransition Clinic and securing millions, this settlement will ensure that the deranged child mutilators who hurt our kids are fired and held accountable,” Paxton said in a statement. “I applaud Texas Children’s Hospital for changing course and committing to being a part of the solution by agreeing to form a first-of-its kind Detransition Clinic that will help provide free care to those who have been victimized by twisted, morally bankrupt transgender ideology. Under my watch, I will investigate and bring the full force of the law against any Texas hospital that abuses children with harmful medical interventions to ‘transition’ kids.”
The settlement also requires the hospital to pay $10 million for billing Texas Medicaid for the transgender operations and forces several doctors to be terminated.
The hospital said in a statement that it is “settling to protect our resources from endless and costly litigation. This settlement will allow us to redirect those precious resources to focus on the life-saving care and groundbreaking discoveries of our exceptional clinicians and scientists.” It noted that the settlement closes a “chapter that has been wrought with falsehoods and distractions.”
