Texas Children's Hospital Opens Detransition Clinic Under State Settlement
The clinic's creation and first five years of funding were required by a $10 million settlement reached with the Texas Attorney General's Office in May.
By Jisoo Serrano ·
Texas Children's Hospital has launched a detransition clinic, fulfilling a requirement of a settlement the hospital reached with the Texas Attorney General's Office in May. Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the opening, calling it the nation's first detransition clinic. "I will continue to ensure that this clinic provides the care and support that victims of the radical left's gender ideology deserve," Paxton said in the announcement.
The clinic is described by the attorney general's office as a multidisciplinary practice serving people who previously received gender-transition care. It provides detransition-related care for patients through age 21 and detransition-related obstetric and gynecologic care for patients over 21. Under the settlement, the hospital must fund the clinic's services for its first five years and promote the clinic on its website.
The settlement resolved claims brought under the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act. Those claims alleged the hospital billed Texas Medicaid for illegal gender-transition interventions. As part of the deal, Texas Children's Hospital paid $10 million, with more than $8 million going to the state, plus $1.7 million to whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge. The hospital also permanently revoked hospital privileges for five doctors who were associated or previously associated with the institution.
Paxton said in the announcement that the clinic would provide care for children affected by what he described as irreversible harm. The attorney general's office, Texas Children's Hospital and previous Fox Local reporting provided the information in this article.
Source: KTBC
