Texas Children’s Hospital will create the country’s first “detransition clinic” as part of a settlement over a Texas investigation into gender transition care, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday.
The hospital will also have to pay $10 million, fire five doctors and no longer provide gender transition care at the hospital. The Chronicle has reached out to Texas Children’s for comment.
Paxton referred to the Texas Children’s doctors as “woke” and “deranged child mutilators” in a quote touting the clinic, which he said would offer free care to people “victimized” by gender transition procedures.
“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,” Paxton said in a statement.
The news release said Paxton secured the settlement “in coordination” with the U.S. Department of Justice.