{"id":645117,"date":"2026-05-15T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645117\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:44:07","slug":"texas-childrens-hospital-to-create-clinic-reversing-trans-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645117\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Children\u2019s Hospital to create clinic reversing trans care"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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The Texas attorney general has secured an unusual settlement over child transgender care that compels Texas Children\u2019s Hospital to create the nation\u2019s first ever \u201cdetransition clinic\u201d in addition to paying the state $10 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Attorney General Ken Paxton<\/a>, the multidisciplinary clinic would offer medical care to patients \u201cwho were subjected to \u2018gender-transition\u2019 procedures.\u201d The care would be free of charge to patients for the first years of the clinic\u2019s operation. The move follows an investigation that began in 2023<\/a> by the attorney general\u2019s office into Texas Children\u2019s Hospital in Houston. That same year, Gov. Greg Abbott<\/a> signed legislation that bars<\/a> transgender children from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapies.<\/p>\n

Gender-affirming care is an umbrella term for the treatment of gender dysphoria, or the discomfort that comes when someone\u2019s gender identity does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. Gender-affirming care ranges from \u201csocially transitioning\u201d \u2014 using different pronouns or dressing differently \u2014 to puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical interventions.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is a monumental day in the fight to stop the radical transgender movement,\u201d Paxton said in a statement issued Friday. \u201cI applaud Texas Children\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the first five years, all services provided through the Detransition Clinic will be funded by Texas Children\u2019s and be free of charge to patients.<\/p>\n

The settlement also requires the hospital to pay $10 million for billing Texas Medicaid after the state accused the hospital of illegal \u2018gender-transition\u2019 interventions, including by using false diagnosis codes, and compels Texas Children\u2019s to terminate and revoke the medical privileges of five physicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Texas Children\u2019s said in a statement that it made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to settle with the attorney general\u2019s office to close a legal chapter that has been, \u201cwrought with falsehoods and distractions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hospital said it spent three three years producing more than 5 million documents to both the state and the U.S. Department of Justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAll reviews and investigations continue to support the facts \u2013 we have been compliant with all laws,\u201d the hospital statement said. \u201cTo be clear \u2013 we are settling to protect our resources from endless and costly litigation \u2026 We stand proud knowing we will always put our purpose over politics and that we have and will continue to follow the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas Children\u2019s, one of the world\u2019s leading pediatric hospitals, did not say in its statement how it will roll out its clinic or what services it will include.<\/p>\n

Andrea Segovia with the Transgender Education Network of Texas said she\u2019s worried that other states will follow Texas\u2019 lead in forcing more of these clinics to open.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s terrifying what other states will take from this,\u201d Segovia said, the organization\u2019s senior field and policy director.<\/p>\n

Transgender people make up about 1% of the population, Segovia said, and it is \u201cinfuriating\u201d that the state is creating the detransition clinic as access to other healthcare services are struggling \u2014 such as rural hospitals and reproductive care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She is also concerned that access to mental healthcare will not be woven into the clinic\u2019s services.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen trans people decide to detransition, it is because of social pressures from their job, from their friends, from their family, from their government,\u201d Segovia said. \u201cIt is not normally because of healthcare complications.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March<\/a>, Paxton released an opinion saying that mental health providers licensed by the state cannot provide gender-transitioning care to minors under state law. It\u2019s not clear if Paxton believes state law bars detransitioning mental healthcare as well.<\/p>\n

Brad Pritchett, CEO of Equality Texas, a nonprofit that advocates for the LGBTQ community, said in a statement that the attorney general is \u201cblackmailing a hospital system into creating a resource that no one is asking for.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pritchett said a detransition clinic \u201cignores the actual science and years of data about the overwhelming benefits of gender-affirming care,\u201d and that it is \u201cembarrassing that a hospital once revered for its care has lost its integrity and put politics over patients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several medical associations including the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and American Psychiatric Association, have supported evidence-based gender-transitioning care<\/a> as appropriate and medically necessary for children.<\/p>\n

Dallas state Rep. Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a> who chairs the Texas House LGBTQ Caucus said in a statement that the settlement is \u201cshameful, and is the furthering of an agenda to eradicate transgender people from the eyes of society.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez, one of the few openly queer representatives, said \u201cdetransitioners already have access to care. There is no evidence that people who detransition lack access to medical care.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She added that because Texas Children\u2019s has to fully fund the clinic for five years, that will take away attention and limited resources from the hospital\u2019s other departments, such as care for children with cancer and infants with heart conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing a settlement to compel a hospital to build an ideologically framed clinic opens the door to more state interference in medical practice, more dangerous stigmatization that truly harms young Texans, and, sadly, more lives lost in our nation\u2019s suicide epidemic,\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez said.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: Texas Children\u2019s Hospital has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune\u2019s journalism. Find a complete\u00a0list of them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,6590,3026],"class_list":["post-645117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ken-paxton","tag-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}