'Today's a Good Day': First Detransitioner Clinic Opens in Notorious Texas Hospital

Joshua Arnold - Commentary : Oct 27, 2026
The Washington Stand

"I think of all the detransitioners who have suffered in silence, been dismissed, and fought desperately to have their voices heard. This win is for them." -Vanessa Sivadge

[WashingtonStand.com] One courageous voice spoke out. Then another. The hospital where they worked was evading the law to hurt children, and they could not stand idly by. Then the backlash began. The massive hospital system severed ties with the doctor and fired the nurse. Federal agents showed up at their front door, and federal prosecutors sought to ruin the two whistleblowers with legal fees and threats of prison. (Image: Pexels)

A year after they first called out Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) for secretly providing transgender hormones to minors, in violation of state law, Eithan Haim and Vanessa Sivadge seemed almost buried under the combined weight of the hospital's legal defenses and the Biden administration's weaponized justice.

Then the reversals began. The 2024 election brought change to Washington. High-ranking intervention narrowly saved Haim from jail. Instead of persecuting the whistleblowers, the federal Justice Department now sided with the state of Texas in its lawsuit to prevent the hospital from harming any more children.

Now, the most dramatic parts of the reversal are all but complete. On Monday, Texas Children's Hospital launched the nation's first detransition clinic, which "provides detransition-related medical care for patients through age 21 along with detransition-related obstetric and gynecologic care for patients older than 21."

"Today's a good day," Sivadge responded to the news.

The hospital did not open the clinic willingly. Its creation was coerced by state and federal prosecutors in a settlement reached earlier this year, which also required the hospital to fully fund it for five years. The settlement also required the hospital to pay $10 million to cover fraudulent billing to Texas Medicaid, fire and irrevocably terminate hospital privileges for five doctors who carried out the illegal procedures on minors, and amend its bylaws so that any doctor who carries out gender transition procedures on minors automatically relinquishes his or her privileges, among other measures.

The settlement reportedly required TCH to open its detransitioner clinic by the end of October, and it has done so in the last week of that month.

However, the information on the clinic webpage suggests that it is more of a "service" provided by the hospital than a "clinic," as it has no single physical location. "The care offered through this clinic is multidisciplinary and therefore patients may receive services at different Texas Children's locations depending on their individual needs and the services recommended by their care team. Care plans are individualized based on patient need."

The "multi-disciplinary" list of specialties covered by the clinic include endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, psychiatry, psychology, social work and case management, and speech pathology.

The clinic webpage provided a contact phone number: (832) 824-4022.

The detransition clinic webpage also featured a link to a patient intake form, created with Microsoft 365. The 11-question document included one question asking, "What are the detransition related concerns?" Another asked for the patient's "gender assigned at birth" (at least it gave only two response options). If anyone harbored doubts over how serious the hospital would take its new detransitioner clinic, such an intake form would likely not assuage them.

Nevertheless, Sivadge celebrated the hospital's baby steps in the right direction. It takes a long time to turn an aircraft carrier.

"I extend my heartfelt gratitude once again to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and my attorneys at the Burke Law Group for their extraordinary dedication, sacrifice, and tireless efforts throughout this fight. Their commitment helped turn a painful and difficult chapter into an opportunity for meaningful change," she wrote. "I hope TCH's admirable effort to fund and launch Americas first detransition clinic becomes a turning point for the entire country. That this clinic is not the exception, but the first of many."

Sivadge is right to recognize the sea change. Five years ago—even three years ago—America's largest medical institutions had plunged headlong into lucrative procedures with questionable benefits and devastating risks to young people. Now, not only have many of those institutions retreated from their most extreme practices, and not only have some of the young people they harmed seen financial restitution, but some hospitals are now beginning to make medical restitution as well. Detransitioner clinics help young people harmed by transgender medicine recover as much of their God-given healthy bodies as possible.

"I think of all the detransitioners who have suffered in silence, been dismissed, and fought desperately to have their voices heard," Sivadge reflected. "This win is for them." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.