Boom: Texas, DoJ Force Houston Hospital to Open First 'Detransition' Clinic In Landmark Settlement
Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has agreed to a settlement that includes the opening of a detransition clinic and the cessation of pediatric sex-change practices. The settlement follows a probe by the Department of Justice and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, which found the hospital guilty of fraudulent billing related to gender-transition interventions. The case against a whistleblower doctor, who exposed the hospital's practices, has been dropped, and he is now suing the hospital for retaliation.
- ▪Texas Children's Hospital will stop administering puberty blockers to children as part of a settlement.
- ▪The hospital will pay $10 million in penalties and open a detransition clinic.
- ▪The settlement concludes a years-long investigation into fraudulent billing for gender-transition interventions.
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Boom: Texas, DoJ Force Houston Hospital to Open First 'Detransition' Clinic In Landmark Settlement Ed Morrissey 4:40 PM | May 18, 2026 AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Ten million dollars. A new, first-in-the-nation clinic to unwind the damage done to children caught up in the pediatric-sex-change industry's machinations. Stripping five of its practitioners of access to more potential victims. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Texas AG Ken Paxton may or may not prevail in his runoff against John Cornyn for the US Senate nomination, but he certainly landed a final argument about the value of his tenure as the state's highest law-enforcement official.
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