Texas Children’s Hospital must create country’s first ‘detransition clinic’ under settlement with Paxton
The hospital will fund free services for five years and pay $10 million after a state investigation into gender-transition billing.
- On Friday, Texas Children's Hospital agreed to develop the nation's first detransition clinic and fire five physicians as part of a settlement with Attorney General Ken Paxton, paying $10 million for prior Medicaid billing related to gender-affirming care.
- Paxton's investigation began in 2023 when Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors; the Texas Supreme Court upheld the law in 2024.
- The hospital must amend bylaws to automatically revoke physician privileges and provide free clinic services for five years funded entirely by the hospital, while terminating multiple doctors.
- Texas Children's stated it settled to protect resources from "endless and costly litigation" after three years producing 5 million documents, while Paxton framed the outcome as a "monumental day in the fight to stop the radical transgender movement.
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Texas Children’s Hospital to Pay Millions, Create ‘First-Ever’ Detransition Clinic in DOJ Settlement
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Texas Attorney General's Office announced a "landmark" $10 million resolution with the Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) on Friday, which includes the creation of a clinic for detransitioners harmed by sex-rejecting drugs and surgeries. The post Texas Children’s Hospital to Pay Millions, Create ‘First-Ever’ Detransition Clinic in DOJ Settlement appeared first on Breitbart.
Under pressure from state, Texas hospital to create ‘gender detransition clinic’
A Houston-based children’s hospital that was investigated for providing gender-affirming care to minors has agreed to create the country’s first “gender detransition clinic.” As part of a settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Texas Children’s Hospital will offer free services to patients in its “detransition clinic.” The hospital also agreed to pay the state $10 million and to fire five doctors who Paxton said gave children gender-a…
Paxton Scores $10M Win In Fight Against Trans Industrial Complex
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Friday a significant settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston over that hospital’s long practice of harming minors with cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries. The settlement focuses on billing fraud, a much-discussed aspect of transgender medical programs in which providers bill insurance for falsely described procedures that appear […]
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