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Texas Children's Hospital opens clinic for patients seeking detransition care
Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has opened a clinic for people seeking medical care related to detransition.
The clinic follows a settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said it is the first of its kind in the United States.
The settlement requires the hospital to pay $10 million to resolve claims that it improperly billed Medicaid for gender-transition treatments; the claims were not described as a court finding.
The hospital says services may include endocrinology, surgery, mental health care and fertility counseling, and will be free to patients for five years.
The hospital says it is assessing prospective patients, but no clinical appointments have taken place yet.
The settlement also requires the hospital to publicize the clinic, and the hospital says it is complying with the agreement.
Texas Children’s Hospital has opened a clinic for patients seeking detransition-related care.
The clinic was established under a settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office.
It provides medical care to patients through age 21 and obstetric and gynecologic care to patients older than 21.
The hospital says it is triaging prospective patients but has not yet held clinical appointments.
Texas Children’s must fund the clinic’s services for five years and provide them at no cost to patients.
- Who
- Texas Children’s Hospital opened the clinic under a settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
- What
- The clinic provides detransition-related care. The hospital says it is triaging prospective patients.
- When
- Paxton announced the clinic was open on a Tuesday; the article is dated October 31, 2026.
- Where
- Texas Children’s Hospital, Texas.
- Why
- The settlement required the hospital to establish and fund the clinic.
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Paxton reached a settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital requiring it to pay $10 million and establish and fund a detransition clinic.
The settlement was finalized.
Paxton announced that the clinic had opened.
A hospital spokesperson said the hospital was triaging prospective patients but had not yet held clinical appointments.
- Settlement payment
- $10 million
- Clinic care age range
- Medical care through age 21; obstetric and gynecologic care for patients older than 21
- Funding period
- Five years
- Patient cost
- No cost for services funded through the clinic
- Appointments
- The hospital said it had not yet held clinical appointments with patients
What people are saying
In accordance with my settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital, the nation’s first-ever Detransition Clinic is now open
First and foremost, patients and families are at the center of all we do, and we will always provide the highest standard of care, including through this clinic, which formalizes the supportive, multidisciplinary services we have and will continue to deliver
We are actively triaging prospective patients through our established intake process. We can tell you that, thus far, we have not yet had clinical appointments with patients.