{"id":429719,"date":"2026-05-15T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429719\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:26:08","slug":"texas-childrens-hospital-to-create-first-detransition-clinic-in-win-for-trump-us-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429719\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas children\u2019s hospital to create first detransition clinic in win for Trump | US healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the largest pediatric hospitals in the US<\/a> is creating a clinic that officials say will be a place for transgender youth to detransition to the sex they were assigned at birth.<\/p>\n

The news came on Friday, when Texas<\/a> children\u2019s hospital reached a settlement agreement with the state\u2019s attorney general and the US justice department over allegations that the Houston-based medical center billed Texas Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care under false diagnosis codes, among other claims.<\/p>\n

Along with creating what the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has called<\/a> the nation\u2019s \u201cfirst-ever detransition clinic\u201d, Paxton\u2019s office announced that the hospital would also pay the state $10m and has been encouraged to terminate multiple physicians as part of the agreement. Texas children\u2019s will fund all services at the detransition clinic over the first five years, and it will be free for patients.<\/p>\n

The hospital additionally agreed to no longer provide youth with puberty blockers, hormonal therapy or surgery that helps them align with their gender identity, Paxton\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is a monumental day in the fight to stop the radical transgender movement,\u201d Paxton said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThis historic settlement reflects an institutional and fundamental cultural shift away from radical \u2018gender\u2019 ideology.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder my watch, I will investigate and bring the full force of the law against any Texas<\/a> hospital that abuses children with harmful medical interventions to \u2018transition\u2019 kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

The settlement agreement announced Friday came amid a longstanding campaign by Donald Trump\u2019s administration<\/a> against gender-affirming care. On 28 January 2025, the president issued an executive order<\/a> that directed federally funded institutions to \u201cend the chemical and surgical mutilation of children\u201d.<\/p>\n

Texas previously banned<\/a> hormonal therapy and gender-affirming surgery for children in 2023.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s announcement came several days after a Texas federal prosecutor subpoenaed<\/a> several medical institutions, including a major hospital network in New York City, for information about minor patients who had received gender-affirming care over the past six years.<\/p>\n

Texas children\u2019s said that it settled after spending the past three years conducting investigations and sending more than 5m documents to the US justice department and the state\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Texas children\u2019s said the process had been marked by \u201cnavigating an unconscionable campaign of mistruths and mischaracterizations related to gender affirming care\u201d.<\/p>\n

The statement continued: \u201cThese efforts have required significant staff time and financial resources to defend ourselves. All reviews and investigations continue to support the facts \u2013 we have been compliant with all laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

The justice department on Friday announced that the settlement was the first resolution in its investigations into gender-affirming care for youth. In a statement<\/a>, the department said that it would continue to pursue medical providers and pharmaceutical companies that provide gender-affirming care for minors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [justice department] will use every weapon at its disposal to end the destructive and discredited practice of so-called \u2018gender-affirming care\u2019 for children,\u201d the acting US attorney general Todd Blanche said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s resolution furthers that commitment and puts providers of so-called \u2018gender affirming care\u2019 on notice that this Department will vigorously enforce federal law where children are put at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah, a Texas mother who asked that her last name not be used, told<\/a> the Guardian for a March 2025 article that her trans daughter greatly benefited from receiving gender-affirming care. At the time, Sarah and her daughter \u2013 using the pseudonym Raven \u2013 flew to Colorado every six months for Raven to receive gender-affirming services because of Texas\u2019s ban.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe feels more herself,\u201d Sarah said of Raven. \u201cIf she didn\u2019t have it, I don\u2019t think she would choose to stay alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the largest pediatric hospitals in the US is creating a clinic that officials say will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-429719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}