Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a $10 million settlement from Texas Children’s Hospital that legally requires the medical institution to create the nation’s first-ever “detransition clinic.”Paxton announced the news on Friday, about three years after he started investigating the Houston-based pediatric hospital over transgender procedures and treatments for minors.The detransition clinic will offer medical care to patients who underwent gender transitions, which Paxton’s office says were pushed by “ideologically motivated physicians.” For the clinic’s first five years, the detransition services will be free to patients and paid by the hospital.
The settlement requires the hospital to pay $10 million for billing Texas Medicaid for gender transitions, which the state’s medical insurance program does not allow. TCH faced allegations that its medical providers knowingly falsified diagnosis codes to obtain Medicaid payments for gender transitions.
The legal agreement also compels TCH to fire multiple physicians who performed these procedures, revoke their privileges, and never hire or credential such doctors.
Most importantly, TCH agreed to never provide gender transitions to minors again.
