Texas children’s hospital to create first detransition clinic in win for Trump

One of the largest pediatric hospitals in the US will pay state $10m and stop offering gender-affirming care to youth One of the largest pediatric hospitals in the US is creating a clinic that officials say will be a place for transgender youth to detransition to the sex they were assigned at birth. The news came on Friday, when Texas children’s hospital reached a settlement agreement with the state’s attorney general and the US justice department over allegations that the Houston-based medical center billed Texas Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care under false diagnosis codes, among other claims. Along with creating what the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has called the nation’s “first-ever detransition clinic”, Paxton’s office announced that the hospital would also pay the state $10m and has been encouraged to terminate multiple physicians as part of the agreement. Texas children’s will fund all services at the detransition clinic over the first five years, and it will be free for patients. The hospital additionally agreed to no longer provide youth with puberty blockers, hormonal therapy or surgery that helps them align with their gender identity, Paxtonâ€