Texas to Open First Detransition Clinic by End of October

Cara Lynn ShultzFri, August 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM UTC

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Texas Children’s Hospital will open a detransition clinic as part of a legal settlementCredit: Shutterstock -

Texas Children’s Hospital will open the nation’s first detransition clinic as part of a settlement with the state

The clinic must provide free services for five years and include resources like psychiatry, surgery, and fertility counseling

PEOPLE reached out to Texas Children’s Hospital for comment, but they did not immediately respond

The nation’s first clinic intended to reverse gender transition care will open in Texas, and as part of a children’s hospital’s settlement with the state, there’s a tight timeline on when it will open.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced in a statement that the nation’s first detransition clinic will open at Texas Children’s Hospital by the end of October. It’s part of an agreement to settle a state investigation with the Justice Department over allegations that the hospital fraudulently billed Texas Medicaid for gender-affirming treatments using false diagnosis codes.

PEOPLE reached out to Texas Children’s Hospital for comment, but they did not immediately respond.

Texas Attorney General Ken PaxtonCredit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty

“This historic settlement is a resounding defeat for the radical gender ideology that has preyed on Texas children under the guise of ‘care,’ ” said Paxton in the statement. “Texas Children’s has agreed to pay millions back to Texas. The detransition clinic, which is the first of its kind, must open within months. Activist doctors who harmed children have been fired. This settlement sends an unmistakable message: if you put radical ideology over children’s health, my office will go after you. We will continue to lead the way in stopping the far-left’s radical gender agenda.”

Per the settlement, the clinic must offer “Endocrinology, Surgery, Primary Care, Fertility Counseling, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Social Work/Case Management (to include navigation of insurance, legal name changes, patient navigator role to coordinate across departments), and Speech Pathology.”

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The clinic must also have “an easily accessible landing page” on the hospital’s website, which, per the settlement, must also include the detransition clinic as an option for charitable giving.

The clinic, intended to serve patients up to age 21 who have received gender-affirming care — called “sex-rejecting procedures in the settlement” — must offer services “at no cost to patients for a period of five (5) years.”

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In a statement, Brad Pritchett, the CEO of the nonprofit LGBTQIA+ rights advocacy group Equality Texas, said, “Paxton is blackmailing a hospital system into creating a resource that no one is asking for. It ignores the actual science and years of data about the overwhelming benefits of gender-affirming care, and it completely disregards the huge number of trans people who owe their lives to the very care Paxton is opposing. It is embarrassing that a hospital once revered for its care has lost its integrity and put politics over patients.”

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