Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reached a settlement with Texas Children's Hospital that will end the practice of using “gender-affirming care” on children while creating the very first clinic to assist those who wish to “detransition.”
This comes amid a sea change in national views on gender ideology and efforts to force it into various U.S. institutions. Paxton’s office hammered out a deal with Texas Children’s Hospital compelling it to create the detransition clinic, according to a press release.
Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a historic settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital (“Texas Children’s”) that compels the creation of the country’s first-ever Detransition Clinic; requires the hospital to pay $10 million for billing Texas Medicaid for unallowable and illegal ‘gender-transition’ interventions, including by using false diagnosis codes; and compels the termination and revocation of privileges of multiple physicians.
After a years-long investigation by the Healthcare Program Enforcement Division, Attorney General Paxton has negotiated a historic settlement that will help protect Texans. Under the terms of this landmark agreement, Texas Children’s will establish the first-ever multidisciplinary clinic designed to provide medical care to patients who were subjected to “gender-transition” procedures. This Detransition Clinic will help patients reverse the damage caused by ideologically-motivated physicians who harmed patients by performing dangerous medical interventions for the purpose of “transitioning” them. For the first five years, all services provided through the Detransition Clinic will be funded by Texas Children’s and be free of charge to patients.
As part of the settlement, Texas Children’s has also agreed to fire, permanently and irrevocably terminate all existing privileges, and never again hire or credential five woke doctors who performed harmful medical interventions on Texans. As part of the settlement, Texas Children’s agrees not to provide “gender-transition” services; will implement a host of compliance and ethics measures; and the hospital will amend its bylaws to trigger automatic relinquishment of privileges for any physician who violates Texas’s prohibition on medical interventions to “transition” kids. Attorney General Paxton secured this historic settlement in coordination with President Trump’s Department of Justice.
Texas Children's Hospital claimed they shut down their trans clinic in 2022. Dr. Eitan Haim exposed the truth: they were still secretly implanting puberty blockers in kids as young as 11.
— 1200 WOAI (@1200WOAI) December 24, 2025
Now the feds are trying to destroy the whistleblower instead of protecting children. pic.twitter.com/6Ys9Lz882f
Paxton praised the outcome, calling it “a monumental day in the fight to stop the radical transgender movement.”
“In addition to helping establish the first-ever Detransition Clinic and securing millions, this settlement will ensure that the deranged child mutilators who hurt our kids are fired and held accountable,” he added.
🚨 WOW! AG Ken Paxton just got Texas Children Hospital to CAVE on transgender transition operations for minors — it now has to pay $10 MILLION and open a detransition clinic by this October
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 7, 2026
They falsified MEDICAL RECORDS and falsely billed Medicaid to push children into… pic.twitter.com/lxfeHUFG7Y
The settlement comes after Paxton announced an investigation into the hospital in May 2023 over its efforts to provide “gender-affirming care” to minors. The hospital continued prescribing puberty blockers, hormones, and other treatments to kids even after Texas passed legislation prohibiting this.
“I’ve been clear that any ‘gender transitioning’ procedures that hurt our children constitute child abuse under Texas law,” Paxton said, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Editor's Note: Do you enjoy Townhall's conservative reporting that takes on the radical left and woke media? Support our work so that we can continue to bring you the truth.
Join Townhall VIP and use promo code FIGHT to receive 60% off your membership.
