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Texas Children’s Hospital Settlement Deals Massive Defeat to Medical Transgender Agenda

THE WASHINGTON STAND—The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday announced a settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) in which the hospital not only committed to never again carry out gender transition procedures on minors, but also agreed to open the nation’s first detransitioner clinic and fully fund it for five years.

TCH gained notoriety in 2023 when a whistleblower provided evidence that the hospital continued to secretly administer gender transition hormones to minors, even after the Texas legislature had made it illegal.

“Today’s resolution protects vulnerable children, holds providers accountable, and ensures those harmed receive the care they need,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “The Justice Department will use every weapon at its disposal to end the destructive and discredited practice of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for children.”

The settlement, reached in coordination with the Texas Attorney General’s office, requires TCH to “establish the first-ever multidisciplinary clinic designed to provide medical care to patients who were subjected to ‘gender-transition’ procedures,” the state AG’s office said. “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.”

Under the settlement, TCH will also pay $10 million to cover its fraudulent billing of Texas Medicaid by coding gender transition procedures as completely different procedures—a practice exposed by whistleblower Eithan Haim.

The settlement also requires TCH to fire and irrevocably terminate hospital privileges for five doctors who carried out the illegal procedures on minors, agree to never again provide “gender-transition” services, amend its bylaws so that any doctor who carries out gender transition procedures on minors automatically relinquishes his or her privileges, and implement other compliance and ethical measures, according to the Texas attorney general’s office.

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The ramifications of this settlement are massive. While $10 million is a relatively small financial penalty for a hospital giant, it is more significant that the hospital agreed to fire staff, change bylaws, and fully fund a clinic to do the opposite of the procedures it recently profited from.

Clearly, the hospital realized federal and state prosecutors had it over a barrel. So, like any self-interested business, it finally decided to........

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