Overview
- The hospital launched the detransition clinic and began taking appointment requests Monday, meeting a settlement deadline set earlier this year.
- The executed agreement calls for roughly $8.576 million to be paid to the state with $1.7152 million of that designated for the whistleblower and the attorney general describing the overall resolution as about $10 million; the hospital did not admit liability.
- Texas Children’s says the clinic will offer endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, psychiatry, psychology, social work and speech pathology for patients up to age 21 and obstetric/gynecologic care for older patients.
- Under the deal the hospital must permanently stop defined sex‑altering interventions for minors, terminate the hospital privileges of five specified physicians, add e-prescribing and coding safeguards, and retain records through June 30, 2032.
- Key implementation questions remain because the settlement does not yet show how many patients will be served, which hospital sites will provide services, or what clinical outcomes will follow, and the free-care mandate could change access and funding patterns for detransitioners across Texas.