A Texas hospital has opened a “detransition” gender clinic following a $10 million settlement with the Trump Administration.
Over the past 20 years, the number of children who identify as transgender has skyrocketed — especially among biological girls. Many hospitals have opened “gender clinics” that prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones kids or even perform sex-change procedures on children. But public health experts and policymakers in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support these “gender transitions.”
These drugs and procedures carry serious risks — including infertility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, and cardiovascular problems. Whistleblowers have come forward to testify about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the procedures’ risks, consequences, or alternatives. Stories like these have prompted investigations and legal action.
Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston has agreed to stop performing sex-change procedures on children, pay $10 million in penalties, and open the first-ever detransition clinic in the country. The settlement comes after a joint investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Texas Attorney General’s office.
This is good news. Today we know pro-LGBT activists and medical organizations have been citing each other’s work in a circular pattern for years, manufacturing a fake consensus about performing sex-change surgeries on kids.
Recently, a jury awarded one detransitioner $2 million after finding that doctors committed malpractice when they performed a double mastectomy on her at age 16. Twenty-eight similar lawsuits are already working their way through courts across the country.
In 2021, lawmakers in Arkansas passed the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act. This good law generally prohibits doctors from performing sex-change procedures on children or giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
A federal court upheld the SAFE Act last year — meaning it is protecting children in Arkansas at this very moment.
Arkansas was the first state in America to enact a law like the SAFE Act, but since 2021 lawmakers in more than half the country have passed similar legislation. These measures are on the books, protecting children. That’s something to celebrate.
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