Texas Children's Hospital will have to make 'potential gender-affirming care patient list': records

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- What the State Attorney General is calling the nation's first de-transitioning clinic will be opening in the Texas Medical Center later this year.

It's part of a settlement Texas Children's Hospital reached with the state after an investigation, and now ABC13 learned that the hospital will also be required to keep a "potential gender-affirming care patient list."

ABC13 received the state's settlement terms after filing a public records request with the Texas Attorney General.

According to those terms released, Texas Children's Hospital will have to pay $10 million to the state and federal government.

The hospital will also be required to ban any procedures defined as sex-rejecting and create a de-transition clinic with free medical care for patients who have received sex-rejecting treatment in the past.

There are still questions over exactly what sex rejecting treatment is, but the settlement defines it as "pharmaceutical or surgical interventions that attempt to align an individual's physical appearance or body with an asserted identity that differs from the individual's sex."

Texas Children's will have to permanently revoke medical privileges at the hospital for three current doctors and two former ones.

Also, the hospital is agreeing to maintain a list of patients who have received gender-affirming care in the past.

The settlement doesn't have any information on the confidentiality of the list, but does stipulate that the hospital's compliance department would have to audit the list every year.

This settlement comes after the Attorney General started investigating Texas Children's three years ago, after a doctor leaked medical records of transgender children.

That doctor was originally charged with a crime, but charges were later dismissed.

Gender transition care for minors was legal in the state of Texas when the investigation started, but it was banned just a few months later and remains illegal in the state of Texas.

ABC13 reached out to Texas Children's Hospital, but we were told the hospital couldn't comment on an ongoing case.

The settlement hasn't been finalized yet, so there are still questions on exactly when it will go into effect.