Texas children's hospital opens new clinic
The facility serves adults and teens who previously received gender-transition care as part of a recent legal settlement.
By Amit Chukwu ·
Patients in Texas can now access a new medical facility dedicated to those who have stopped or reversed gender-transition treatments. Texas Children's Hospital opened the clinic following a settlement with the state attorney general's office. The office describes the site as a multidisciplinary center for individuals who previously received such care.
The clinic serves two distinct age groups. It provides detransition-related care to patients up to age 21. Patients older than 21 receive detransition-related obstetric and gynecologic services. The hospital must fully fund these services for the first five years under the terms of the agreement.
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the opening in a statement. He called it the nation's first-ever Detransition Clinic. Paxton said he would ensure the clinic provides support to those he termed victims of the radical left’s gender ideology. He stated that the goal is to protect children and defeat an ideology that inflicted irreversible harm on innocent kids.
The clinic is part of a $10 million settlement reached in May. The case was brought under the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act. The hospital agreed to pay the sum to resolve claims regarding Medicaid billing for gender-transition interventions. More than $8 million of the total goes to the state.
The settlement also includes a $1.7 million payment to whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge. The hospital permanently revoked the privileges of five doctors associated with the facility. The agreement requires the hospital to promote the clinic on its website.
Source: KTBC
