Texas Children’s Hospital Capitulates to Paxton: to Hold “Detransition Clinics” and halt GAC

Texas Children’s Hospital in a devastating betrayal choose money over children’s lives agreeing to stop Gender Affirming Care (GAC) for children suffering from gender dysphoria. In addition the hospital has agreed to hold free “Detransition Clinics” where “conversion therapy” would likely be the only option.

Texas Children’s Hospital in a statement said:

“Today, we made the difficult decision to settle with the Texas attorney general and the Department of Justice, closing a chapter that has been wrought with falsehoods and distractions,” the statement read, adding, “To be clear — we are settling to protect our resources from endless and costly litigation. This settlement will allow us to redirect those precious resources to focus on life-saving care and groundbreaking discoveries of our exceptional clinicians and scientists.”

That statement appears to have since been deleted from the Texas Children’s website, Them US reports with the original hyperlink returning a 404 error. As of this writing, it has not been reposted to the hospital’s media release page.

Conversion therapy when performed on minors it is considered to be a form of child abuse. It has been described by experts as torture; cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment; and contrary to human rights. Laws on conversion therapy vary, ranging from constitutional protection to a criminal offense.

“Paxton is blackmailing a hospital system into creating a resource that no one is asking for,” Equality Texas CEO Brad Pritchett said in a statement to the AP. “It ignores the actual science and years of data about the overwhelming benefits of gender-affirming care.”

Under Trump, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to use its regulatory power to block gender-affirming care for minors, and the DOJ has demanded access to providers’ records. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement Friday that the DOJ would “use every weapon at its disposal” to stop gender-affirming care for children.

Governor Abbott is obviously delighted that his promise to end transgender people in Texas is being fulfilled despite the fact that every American Medical Association supports Gender Affirming care for all ages.

Vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Trump may Steal Midterm elections

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Senator Mark Warner told Rachel Maddow on MS Now that he is terrified at the prospect of Trump interfering with the Midterm Elections. Perhaps not so much because he might get away with it, but more so the irreparable damage it would cause to our belief that every vote counts.

Senator Warner voiced a dire warning in the >New York Times that Trump is trying to override our elections. The Washington Post reported that a draft Executive Order being circulated claiming that there is currently a national emergency due to foreign election interference.

“There is now clear and compelling evidence from court cases and forensic analysis that these threats have not been mitigated but instead have intensified,” reads the proposed draft, dated April 2025. “This constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

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“We’ve been raising the alarm for weeks about President Trump’s attacks on our elections and now we’re seeing reports that outline how they may be planning to do it,” Warner said in a statement in response to the Washington Post's article. “This is a plot to interfere with the will of voters and undermine both the rule of law and public confidence in our elections.”

We still have questions about Trump’s new executive order on elections. A national voter list is illegal, inherently flawed, and unworkable, but perhaps that is on purpose. Trump has demonstrated time after time that he thrives in chaos. Since he failed to force the Save Act through Congress perhaps this is manufactured national emergency that Trump feels could warrant invalidating the Midterms and nationalize voting.