Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened the nation’s first detransition clinic as part of a healthcare settlement with the nation’s largest children’s hospital and the state’s attorney general’s office.
The clinic will provide medical care to patients who previously underwent gender-related services. The new clinic will offer detransition-related care to patients through the age of 21, as well as obstetric and gynecologic care to patients older than 21.
“In accordance with my settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital, the nation’s first-ever Detransition Clinic is now open,” said Paxton. “I will continue to ensure that this clinic provides the care and support that victims of the radical left’s gender ideology deserve. Together, we will protect our children and defeat the dangerous ideology that has inflicted irreversible harm on innocent kids.”
The settlement, announced earlier this year, requires the hospital to pay $10 million for billing Texas Medicaid for the transgender operations and forces several doctors to be terminated and their privileges revoked for performing the medical procedures. At the time of the announcement, Paxton celebrated 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.”
The hospital said in a statement at the time 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.”
Texas Children’s will fully fund the detransition clinic for the first five years, allowing patients to receive care without any cost.