Days after a Houston hospital announced it's halting gender-affirming care for transgender kids, FOX 4 has learned that a similar program in Dallas had already stopped taking new patients. The program still treats current patients. But for months, it's been referring new patients to other providers.
Days after a Houston hospital announced it's halting gender-affirming care for transgender kids, FOX 4 has learned that a similar program in Dallas had already stopped taking new patients.
Texas Children's Hospital in Houston announced last Friday that it paused its hormone treatments for transgender children. The Houston hospital said it wanted to "protect families and employees from potential criminal charges.""Here is a lot of hesitation in the medical community even of those who are who provide these services on a regular basis and those who do not," he said. "But everyone is kind of they don't know how to react."