Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) in Houston will open the nation’s first “detransition” clinic after a years-long investigation by the US Department of Justice and Texas’ Healthcare Program Enforcement Division concluded “that TCH fraudulently billed Texas Medicaid for ‘unallowable and illegal ‘gender-transition’ interventions.’”
The settlement, reached on Friday, also requires TCH to cease administering puberty blockers to minors, pay $10 million in penalties, fire five “woke” doctors who performed “gender transition” procedures on children, and fully fund the detransition clinic for five years.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in a statement:
“Today is a monumental day in the fight to stop the radical transgender movement. This historic settlement reflects an institutional and fundamental cultural shift away from radical ‘gender’ ideology. In addition to helping establish the first-ever Detransition Clinic and securing millions, this settlement will ensure that the deranged child mutilators who hurt our kids are fired and held accountable
Under the terms of this landmark agreement, Texas Children’s will establish the first-ever multidisciplinary clinic designed to provide medical care to patients who were subjected to ‘gender-transition’ procedures. 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.”
Every hospital that knowingly allowed the mutilation of children to occur on its watch should be similarly required to provide restorative care to undo the profound harm inflicted on innocent children. Thank you, Texas, for paving the way on this issue!
Here in Alaska, the Alaska State Medical Board drafted regulations in August of 2025 to prevent minors from being surgically and chemically mutilated by medical professionals. This matter has been sitting in the Dunleavy Administration in the Department of Law for 9 months awaiting modifications, if needed, that would then go back to the Board for public comments and a final vote.
And the clock keeps ticking.
Our call out to the Dunleavy Administration continues to be please get the Department of Law to do their job and get the regulations back to the Alaska State Medical Board so they can do their job.
STILL A FEW SEATS LEFT FOR THE GOVERNOR FORUM ON SOCIAL ISSUES THURSDAY
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Confirmed candidates include Dave Bronson, Adam Crum, Edna DeVries, Matt Heilala, Shelley Hughes and Bernadette Wilson.
Hosted by Joel Davidson, Editor of the Alaska Watchman and one of the sharpest, most passionate minds in Alaska, our breakfast forum will include Q & A like you haven’t seen before. We’re going out of our way to bring distinctions, commitment and specificity to the forefront.
The issues will include school choice and parental rights, protecting the unborn, gender ideology and how to fix our broken judicial selection process.
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