Texas Children’s Hospital to Pay $10M as Part of Detransition Settlement
Article 0 Comments Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston has to create a detransition clinic for transgender patients later this year and keep a list of “potential” gender affirming care patients, according to new details released Monday by the Texas Attorney General’s Office. According to a 10-page list of settlement terms, requested by The Texas Tribune, Texas Children’s has 90 days from the effective date of the settlement to set up the detransition clinic. The attorney general announced the settlement two weeks ago but because a final settlement has not been signed there is no effective date agreed upon yet. The clinic must provide multiple services including access to endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, psychiatry and psychotherapy. Also, the clinic must provide obstetrics and gynecological services to adults who have undergone gender transitioning procedures, although it’s unclear if all adult transgender people who want to seek these services must do so through the detransition clinic. The $10 million settlement, first announced on May 15, is the result of a 2023 investigation by the attorney general’s office into Texas Children’s. That same year, Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 14 that bars transgender children from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapies....
