New details released on Texas Children’s Hospital’s planned detransition clinic
The hospital must also keep a patient list and remove gender-transition press releases as part of the agreement, according to new settlement terms.
- On Monday, the Texas Attorney General's Office released details of a $10 million settlement with Texas Children's Hospital, requiring the facility to establish a detransition clinic within 90 days and maintain a 'Potential GAC Patient List.'
- Stemming from a 2023 Texas Attorney General investigation, the agreement also requires Texas Children's to permanently revoke medical privileges for three current and two former doctors.
- Formalizing existing multidisciplinary services like endocrinology and psychiatry, the clinic represents offerings Texas Children's noted were already available to patients before the settlement.
- Addressing privacy concerns, Texas Children's emphasized its commitment to HIPAA compliance, stating it has not been asked to share sensitive patient data and doing so would not be legally permissible.
- Data from a 2024 Harvard University study suggests less than 1% of minors receive hormone treatments, contextualizing care restrictions under Gov. Greg Abbott's 2023 Senate Bill 14.
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New details released on Texas Children’s Hospital’s planned detransition clinic
Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston has to create a detransition clinic for transgender patients by this summer and keep a list of “potential” gender affirming care patients, according to new details released Monday by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
The Washington Post
INTELLINEWSTexas settlement papers describe nation’s first ‘de-transition clinic’
Texas Children’s Hospital agreed to create the clinic and to ban “sex-rejecting” procedures as part of a legal settlement with the state. A copy obtained by The Post details how the clinic must be run.
Texas Hospital Opens First-Ever Detransition Gender Clinic – Family Council
A Texas hospital has opened a “detransition” gender clinic following a $10 million settlement with the Trump Administration. Over the past 20 years, the number of children who identify as transgender has skyrocketed — especially among biological girls. Many hospitals have opened “gender clinics” that prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones kids or even perform sex-change procedures on children. But public health experts and policymaker…
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