Texas Children’s Hospital announces ‘heart-wrenching,’ ‘painful’ plan to end sex-change program for minors — CEO vows to refer patients out of state

Texas Children’s Hospital announced on Wednesday that it would be making changes to its sex-change program to comply with recently passed legislation.

The hospital’s president and CEO, Mark Wallace, called the changes “heart-wrenching” and “painful” in an email posted to Twitter on Wednesday. He vowed to refer minor patients out of state so that they could continue to receive the so-called treatment.

Wallace blamed the recent passage of Senate Bill 14, which “prohibits procedures and prescription treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment and gender dysphoria” of minors.

The bill passed the state legislature earlier this month, and Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has stated that he plans to sign it into law. The pending legislation will go into effect on September 1.

In the leaked email, Wallace stated that the bill would have “clear and direct programmatic implications.”

“Over the next few months, Texas Children’s will modify the gender-affirming care we offer to comply with the new law,” Wallace continued. “We will work with patients and their families to manage the discontinuation of hormone therapies or source appropriate care outside of Texas.”

“The transition we will embark on is going to be immensely heart-wrenching, but we will lead through this adversity and navigate these next steps together with grace, love and compassion like we always do,” he added.

One of the authors of the legislation, Republican Senator Donna Campbell, told Fox News Digital, “Children need counseling and love, not blades and drugs.”

“Both as a doctor and Senator I carefully crafted SB 14, with Dr. and Rep. Tom Oliverson, to protect children from social experimentation and exploitation. SB 14 Prevents the use of puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and mutilating surgeries. Gender dysphoria is a soft description for mental delusion,” Campbell added.

The hospital’s announcement also comes amid an investigation launched by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton following reports that the hospital was performing mutilating surgeries on children in violation of state law.

Whistleblower documents released earlier this month accused the hospital of providing minors with surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers, despite previous claims that it had stopped providing the procedures.

Paxton stated that so-called gender-transitioning operations “constitute child abuse under Texas law.”

“Though many unhinged activists compromising the healthcare field think otherwise, children are not to be treated as science experiments,” he stated. “Doctors and hospitals should not be pushing mutilative and irreversible ‘gender transitioning’ procedures that will negatively impact innocent children for the rest of their lives.”

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