Paxton flips Texas Children’s Hospital from transgender hub to detransition clinic



Texas has successfully transformed one of the main operating bases of the "trans" regime into a refuge for the regime's victims.

Quick background

Despite chatter in 2022 about ending the practice, physicians at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston continued performing sex-rejection interventions on minors.

'A clinic cannot give me back what I lost, but it can help patients rebuild their lives.'

In 2023, following whistleblower revelations about the ongoing sex-rejection interventions at Texas Children's Hospital, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into it.

A lengthy investigation by his office's Healthcare Program Enforcement Division then ensued, and Paxton secured a settlement with Texas Children's Hospital earlier this year.

The hospital was required, among other things, to:

  • permanently cease "providing, directly or indirectly, any sex-rejecting procedures" and referring patients to third parties for such medical procedures;
  • revoke the privileges of and fire physicians who were involved in the hospital's sex-rejection operations; and
  • pay nearly $10 million in civil penalties to "resolve claims brought under the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act and the federal False Claims Act for billing Texas Medicaid for unallowable and illegal 'gender-transition' interventions."

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Per the terms of the settlement, Texas Children's Hospital was also required to establish a detransition clinic to "help patients reverse the damage caused by ideologically motivated physicians who harmed patients by performing dangerous medical interventions for the purpose of 'transitioning' them."

First in the nation

Paxton announced on Tuesday that Texas Children's has opened the detransition clinic.

Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who has raised awareness about the horrors of sex-rejection medical interventions, told Blaze News, "Texas Children’s accepting appointment requests for detransition care is significant because people living with the consequences of transition deserve to be taken seriously."

"A clinic cannot give me back what I lost, but it can help patients rebuild their lives," continued Cole. "The medical system has a responsibility to care for the people who trusted it, including when those patients regret what was done to them."

According to Texas Children's, the clinic offers a team of multi-disciplinary experts with specialties including endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, psychiatry, and speech pathology.

The hospital is obligated to provide all care at no cost to patients for the next five years. To fund services beyond the initial five-year window, the hospital must include the detransition clinic as a specific gift designation on its "Giving" webpage.

Paxton vowed that he will "ensure that this clinic provides the care and support that victims of the radical left’s gender ideology deserve."

"This is an important step toward caring for a group of patients who have long been overlooked," Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, said in a statement to Blaze News. "Detransitioners have suffered because of the lies sold to them by transgender activists. Their struggles were often dismissed or ignored by the medical establishment. Yet they deserve as much support and care as we can give."

Miceli added, "The Detransition Clinic at Texas Children’s is a step in the right direction. We hope to see more hospitals open similar clinics, without the Department of Justice having to step in."

Cole suggested that the establishment of a detransition clinic presents a great opportunity "for research into improving life after transition."

"There are serious unanswered questions about how best to care for detransitioners," Cole told Blaze News. "If Texas Children’s is going to serve these patients properly, it needs to confront those questions: Which treatments actually help? What can realistically be restored? How do patients’ physical and psychological needs change over time?"

The clinic should be judged on whether it materially helps victims and whether it advances that knowledge, said Cole.

Paxton, who faces off with a supporter of the sex-rejection regime in the race for a seat in the U.S. Senate next week, said on Tuesday, "We will protect our children and defeat the dangerous ideology that has inflicted irreversible harm on innocent kids."

Texas Children's did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

Just a week away from Election Day, Democrat James Talarico still holds a slight edge over Paxton in the Texas U.S. Senate race, according to Blaze News' Poll Watch.

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Trans-identifying degenerate coerced boys into performing sex acts by flashing his 'breasts'



A transgender-identifying man was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted for producing child pornography, according to a Department of Justice press release.

Thirty-five-year-old Joseph Downing Barnes Jr. "exposed his breasts" to boys during online webcam chat sessions in order to get them to perform sexual acts that he could record, the DOJ said.

Investigators found 74 videos and four images of child pornography on his phone and found more on his online accounts.

Barnes is from Virginia and was arrested in August.

The boys were ages approximately 10 to 15 years old and were made to believe that Barnes was a biological female, the DOJ said in the press release.

Barnes saved the recorded webchats to his Google account, according to the statement of facts signed by the defendant and his attorney.

This was not the first time he was arrested for crimes related to child sex abuse material. In 2016, he was convicted in the Eastern District of Virginia for trading child sex abuse videos on the Kik application.

Investigators found 74 videos and four images of child pornography on his phone and found more on his online accounts, according to a DOJ press release from December 2016.

He was sentenced to nine years in prison in that case as well as 25 years of supervised release.

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Barnes was identified by law enforcement in 2016 after a man named Justin Clark was found to be trading child porn online. Barnes was one of the people who traded the media with Clark.

Clark was sentenced to six years in prison at the time.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation recommends that parents of young children actively monitor their online activity or restrict their online use to avoid the threat from online predators.

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The WNBA has a tolerance problem — and it’s not coming from the women in XX-XY shirts



Do you ever notice ... how people who insist words are violence can get awfully violent with their words?

And those self-righteous ones so eager to scream and shout about diversity? Some of them have a terrible time sitting next to it.

The WNBA cannot keep presenting itself as a model of inclusion while women who disagree with its prevailing politics are treated as intruders.

Not diversity of shirts. They’re fine with shirts.

Until you wear the wrong one.

Why is it that George Carlin’s NIMBY comes right to mind?

Shirt shrift

At Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, Jen Sey and three friends wore XX-XY Athletics shirts.

Sey, a former national gymnastics champion who founded the company, believes women’s sports should be reserved for females.

Up front. So do I.

Now, I’ve sat near people wearing things I didn’t like. Most of them said, Michigan Wolverines.

We don’t say the “M-word” in our house.

But somehow, we made it through the afternoon. Even had a beer and some laughs.

But apparently, four women wearing XX-XY shirts presented a situation that could not be resolved by watching a basketball game.

Jen and her friends wore their shirts where other people could see them. On their body.

At a public event in a sports coliseum.

How dare they?

The audacity.

Apparently, they should have worn their shirts inside their purses.

As security escorted Sey’s group up the stairs, video captured the insults and obscene gestures from many tolerant fans.

Screamed at.

"You’re disgusting!"

Several flipped them off.

Fashion fascists

Sey says some spectators told her to kill herself and said they hoped she would die. Real class.

In San Francisco.

The city of love and peace.

Security questioned the group about complaints that they were provoking other fans. How you might ask?

By wearing the shirts.

OutKick reported that the guard affirmed the shirts did not violate the Fan Code of Conduct. Duh.

They were allowed back to their seats.

According to Sey, they also received a security escort out after the game for their protection.

Of course, the league and the Valkyries both declined to comment when USA Today reached out.

I remember when the difficult part of leaving a basketball game was finding your car.

Ah, the good old days.

Quite an evening celebrating women. At a women’s basketball game.

Buy a ticket. Wear a shirt.

Receive a complimentary demonstration of why more women are afraid to speak up.

Flag fouling

Before that same game, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert condemned people using social media to “spew vitriol and hate and racism and misogyny at our players.”

She also discussed investments in player security.

Good.

Protect players.

But while you’re making your goodwill rounds, commissioner, there are a few women in the stands who could use some of that concern.

You won’t need to search their social media accounts.

Just follow the screaming to the section where women are being verbally assaulted over their clothing choice.

Meanwhile, both the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries left the floor before the national anthem and returned after it ended.

By the way, both teams walked off again before Game 2 and before Game 3. So let me try to understand this.

Players can make a disgraceful public statement through their absence.

But paying customers make a statement with a shirt and suddenly we need to discuss whether they’re antagonizing people.

Fine print

The league hadn’t answered questions about the teams walking out three games in a row. This column posts Saturday, just before Game 4. Will they continue their streak?

The league’s rulebook clearly directs players, coaches, and trainers how to conduct themselves during the national anthem.

But apparently, screw the rules.

Perhaps the commissioner is still looking for the page. Here, let me help you.

It can be found on page 75 under the "Comments on Rules" section, specifically under Section H ("Player/Team Conduct and Dress"), subsection 2.

“Players, coaches, and trainers are to stand and line up in a dignified posture along the sidelines or on the foul line during the playing of the national anthem."

Those are fairly specific locations.

I’ve looked at a basketball court. Neither one is in the locker room.

Which raises the question.

Why is the WNBA so hostile to America and patriotism? The teams can leave during the anthem.

The commissioner can leave the questions unanswered.

But four women in the wrong shirts require immediate attention. And by the way, this wasn’t the first shirt emergency.

Storm warning

Earlier this season, Seattle Storm minority owner Celeste Keaton berated two teenage fans supporting Sophie Cunningham.

The league fined her and suspended her from five home games. But consider how far things have gone off the rails.

An owner of a women’s professional sports team confronting teenage girls for supporting a female player.

There’s a youth outreach program that could use some work.

In Atlanta, a mother and daughter at an Atlanta game were told to cover their XX-XY shirts or leave.

Notice a pattern here?

The WNBA later acknowledged that the demand should not have happened. How many times do they have to keep saying that?

You’d think that would be a fairly easy instruction to pass along to employees. “Don’t do that again.”

Four words. Fits on a Post-it.

You could put it right next to the employee schedule.

Mixed message

Meanwhile, Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve wore a shirt supporting trans kids while coaching against Indiana.

Her supporters celebrate that as advocacy. Sey’s shirt gets treated as provocation. Same method of expression.

Different politics.

Very different reception.

Apparently, the problem isn’t putting a message on cotton. It’s failing to get the message approved.

Then there’s Cunningham herself, booed and subjected to protests after speaking up for female sports.

She also took a brutal foul from DiJonai Carrington that resulted in Carrington’s ejection. While that doesn’t establish a political motive for the foul, it does belong in any honest discussion of player safety.

Where is all that celebrated room for strong, outspoken women when the outspoken woman is Sophie?

The WNBA cannot keep presenting itself as a model of inclusion while women who disagree with its prevailing politics are treated as intruders.

That is hypocrisy.

And a pregame statement condemning hate doesn’t fix it when paying customers encounter hate inside the building.

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Stuck in the middle

Instead, here we are again, at the Finals, discussing whether women supporting female sports have dressed appropriately to attend female sports.

Players, coaches, owners, and fans are entitled to political opinions. So is the woman sitting beside them.

Even if hers comes in a different font.

That’s what people do with shirts.

We’ve been putting opinions on cotton for decades.

Half the people at the airport seem to be delivering a statement from their stomach. Most of us manage to read it without summoning security.

But in the stands trying to watch an WNBA game, it’s agitating.

If your response to a shirt is to scream obscenities at the woman wearing it, I’m less interested in what’s printed on her chest than what’s coming out of your mouth.

To borrow from Stealers Wheel ... clowns to the left of me.

Jokers to the right. And here we are ... stuck in the middle.

With the baffling WNBA and women wondering why a league built around their sex has such trouble tolerating their opinions.

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No matter who paid for it, Texas trans mailer highlights predatory radicalism



Thousands if not millions of families in Texas recently received a pamphlet in the mail titled "Texas Trans and LGBTQ+ Student Resource Guide," seemingly providing information to trans-identifying minors seeking emancipation from their parents and/or sex-rejection procedures.

There was widespread outrage but also skepticism over the mailers, especially after the radical organization named and promoted in the pamphlet — the Transgender Education Network of Texas — denied responsibility for it.

'I think that their own materials ... like their "Back to School Toolkit" — I think they deserve scrutiny as well.'

TENT says it was not responsible, and evidence points to a possible election-time "op" by an out-of-state actor. However, critics have observed that the controversial messaging in the flyer greatly resembles what has been pushed by TENT and other trans activist outfits in the state.

Disavowal

The pamphlet states, "You are not alone. There are people in Texas who will help you find support."

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales, X

After discussing emancipation, "what to do if your parents don't support you," and "what to know about hormones or gender affirming care," the pamphlet devotes two pages to promoting TENT and its "Trans Texas Takeover Fall Tour," which is an actual tour with upcoming events scheduled across the state.

Earlier in the month, multiple phone numbers sent provocative texts to Texans also linking to TENT's newly scrubbed website and its "Back to School Toolkit," reported the Tribune.

One text allegedly stated, "New school year? Here's your complete guide on bathrooms and beyond for trans kids at school," with a link to a TENT toolkit.

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These communications prompted outrage and an investigation request by Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach (R).

Leach has since supplemented his request, asking Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton to look into the "possibility that the communications and associated toolkit may not originate from the group whose name it was sent under."

Paxton's office did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

TENT has disavowed the pamphlet and the text messages.

TENT noted in a statement on its website, "We are aware of text messages and now physical mailers that have been circulated concerning TENT that appear to have been issued by or on behalf of the organization. These text messages and mailers were not authored, authorized, approved, or distributed by TENT and are not affiliated with our organization. The texts do not represent the official position or communications of the organization."

Mimi Marziani, a lawyer at the law firm retained by TENT, told NBC News, "This was deliberately injected into public conversation right as early voting was taking place, and I do not think it was a coincidence."

While TENT has denied involvement, Jonathan Covey, the director of policy for Texas Values, told Blaze News, "I think that their own materials that they do have and that we have been able to see — like their 'Back to School Toolkit' — I think they deserve scrutiny as well. We think that some of the positions that they take undermine parents' roles in their children's lives."

Covey underscored the need to identify the individuals behind the mailer and how they "obtained all that mailing information."

"Families deserve answers about where that information came from," added Covey.

Origin

WFAA-TV, KHOU-TV, the Texas Tribune, and sleuths online have connected the pamphlet back to a limited liability company that was registered in Wyoming last month, reinforcing suspicions that this mailing campaign may have been an election-time "op" all along.

The return sender listed on the mailer is "Texas Transgender Student Union," an outfit that does not appear to be an organization with a presence in the state. The return address in Meadows Place, Texas, isn't a valid address, referring instead to the middle of a street. It also appears to be a look-alike address modeled on Transgender Education Network of Texas' address.

Snopes highlighted, however, that a similar address turns up a nearby mailbox at a UPS store.

The Texas Observer's Steven Monacelli discovered this week that the Texas Transgender Student Union "is a real organization — but it was only formed in September in Wyoming as an LLC and is entirely separate from TENT, the organization marketed in the fliers."

Wyoming Secretary of State Business Center

The LLC's registered agent is the popular corporate filing service Northwest Registered Agent LLC; its organizer is listed as Taylor Newman; and it is tied to an address in Sheridan, Wyoming, which has been linked to various companies accused of scams.

Newman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Northwest Registered Agent told WFAA-TV:

One of our main jobs is receiving state and legal notices for our clients and forwarding them promptly. This gives agencies a way to serve legal notices on companies, even if they don’t have a physical office location, and it keeps businesses reachable by law enforcement and regulators. That is where our involvement ends. We have no way of knowing someone’s intent when they’re forming a new company, and Northwest Registered Agent has no knowledge of, or involvement in, our clients’ business operations.

TENT has reportedly sent a cease-and-desist notice to the Texas Transgender Student Union as well as to a pair of digital messaging companies that reportedly delivered the text messages on Oct. 12 and 13.

The Senate campaigns of state Rep. James Talarico (D) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News but told CBS News Texas that they had nothing to do with the LGBT mailer.

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Activists protest red state's law by sending 'bearded, burly' trans-identifying protesters into women's bathrooms



Transgender-identifying people are protesting a law in Kansas by following it — with "bearded, burly" women who identify as men.

In one incident on Aug. 8, the protest caused the manager of the Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City to scream and help children leave the bathroom and changing area.

The reporter referred to the action as 'malicious compliance.'

The new SB 244 law restricts people from using a bathroom designated for a gender that doesn't match their gender assigned at birth.

Following the law led to the self-described "bearded, burly men" having an "uncomfortable" conversation with police where they had to describe their bodies and genitals, according to a report from a transgender-identifying reporter.

The report showed a picture of the three women wearing yellow shirts that read "SB244 Compliance Crew," which refers to the transgender law.

The reporter referred to the action as "malicious compliance."

Others were a part of the protest and made similar bathroom visits at a zoo, a library, a museum, and other parks. The group's press release claimed that neither the police involved in the water park incident nor the manager knew about the law.

"Segregating people by suspected genitalia does nothing to improve public safety; it does quite the opposite by opening Kansans up to sexual harassment and discrimination," said one of the women at the Dodge City protest. "At no point should anyone be asking anyone else what genitals they have in public."

The transgender activist group also claimed that the law had unequal outcomes for different transgender-identifying folks.

"Trans feminine people face the brunt of the KS Legislature's demonization while trans masculine folks are infantilized and characterized as non-threatening," the group states on its website, according to LGBTQ Nation. "We believe it's important to use that relative advantage to work for change."

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The transgender-identifying activists are plotting more protests against the Kansas law.

"I've got some ideas rattling around in my head," said Charles Osman, who created the SB244 Compliance Crew.

Osman says there's a reason the activists are targeting areas away from the metropolitan areas of Kansas.

"They almost exclusively vote Republican," Osman told the Lawrence Times. "And almost nobody knows about this law out in rural areas."

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Pro-trans group denies sending kids guide to hormones and surgery — so why did it wipe its website?



BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is demanding answers after receiving a mailer addressed to the “students” in her household that she says offers transgender and questioning minors resources for navigating unsupportive parents, accessing hormones and surgeries, and even leaving their home state.

“It was addressed to the 'students' of our family from the ... Texas Transgender Student Union. And what it does is it essentially coaches minors on what to do if their parents aren’t supportive of their trans identity,” she explains on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“It’s like, here’s how you can get emancipated if your mom and dad are so mean they’re not going to call you a she when you’re obviously a he,” she adds.

Inside the envelope was the “Texas Trans and LGBTQ Student Resource Guide,” which “gives a bunch of resources to trans or nonbinary or questioning children.”


“And if your community isn’t supportive, according to this pamphlet, there are resources for you. They give them tips on how to flee the state. They give them tips on how to get hormones, how to get mutilation surgeries, and it lists a bunch of websites and organizations on it, but the main one that keeps getting referenced is the Transgender Education Network of Texas, or TENT for short,” Gonzales explains.

However, TENT has now denied its organization sent out the mailer.

“It’s so evil that leftists don’t even want to claim it. They don’t want to claim that one of them did it,” Gonzales says.

“And so, you had people in my comments were like, ‘Fake. This is fake, and you’re a liar.’ It’s not fake. There were a bunch of people actually responding that they got the same mailer too. It was sent to many of us. I don’t know how. I don’t know where they got our names. I don’t know what mailing list they bought, but it’s obviously not fake,” she continues.

On TENT’s website, it says: “We're aware of text messages and now physical mailers that have been circulated concerning TENT that appear to have been issued by or on behalf of the organization.”

“These text messages and mailers were not authored, authorized, approved, or distributed by TENT and are not affiliated with our organization. The texts do not represent the official position or communications of the organization,” the statement continues.

“We will continue to monitor the situation and remain committed to our organizational values of unequivocal support for trans Texans, their families, their loved ones,” the group says, concluding its statement with, “Trans Texans belong here. This is our home and we’re not going anywhere.”

At the bottom of the text is a GIF of Mariah Carey with the text: “Why are you so obsessed with me?”

“I would just say like, why are you so obsessed with chopping children’s healthy body parts off? I would start there,” Gonzales responds.

While she admits that there’s an argument to be had that “some sent this mailer to paint the group in a negative light,” she points out that on the group’s social media accounts, it promotes the same thing.

The group deleted everything on its website except for the new message that the mailers and text messages have nothing to do with the group, which also gives Gonzales pause.

“They didn’t say whether or not they agree with the message. I find that to be particularly interesting, but I’m wondering, if you didn’t send it, why are you nuking your website?” Gonzales asks.

“Because remember, you recall they mentioned the text message. Well, that went out,” she continues, before reading the text message: “New school year. Here’s your complete guide on bathrooms and beyond for trans kids at school.”

“This is y’all’s side. This is what you guys want to do. I just think you should own it is all that I’m saying,” Gonzales adds.

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