Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced on Friday that the state is creating the very first detransitioner’s clinics for children who went through “gender-affirming care.”
This is a landmark development as this will be the nation’s first clinic of its type. It came about as the result of a settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital that compels it to create the new Detransition Clinic.
The settlement also 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,” according to a press release.
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.
BREAKING: I just made history by securing a landmark healthcare fraud settlement that creates the nation's first-ever Detransition Clinic and secures $10 million from Texas Children's Hospital for "transitioning" kids. pic.twitter.com/EnL5F7JMlY
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) May 15, 2026
Paxton celebrated this outcome, calling it “a monumental day in the fight to stop the radical transgender movement” and noting that it “reflects an institutional and fundamental cultural shift away from radical ‘gender’ ideology.”
Gov. Greg Abbott in 2023 signed Senate Bill 14 into law. The measure prohibits doctors from providing puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and “gender-affirming” surgeries to children. Physicians who violate the law could lose their medical licenses.
The Texas Supreme Court upheld the law in 2024, rejecting parents’ arguments that it violates their right to make medical decisions for their kids.
The settlement is likely to raise objections coming from progressives, who believe that children suffering from gender dysphoria should be encouraged to undergo these treatments despite the lasting damage they can cause.
