Ah, I see they're going the Josef Mengele route.
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I have no hope that this facility will be used ethically, it's almost certainly going to become a "pray the gay away" camp-esque operation.
BUT
If such a facility could potentially exist in the future that is voluntary and run by ethical medical professionals, then I think it would be beneficial to those who may have undergone therapy and changed their mind or decided on a different endgoal for their transformation. Right now it's a bit of a niche that doesn't appear to have a lot of dedicated practices.
I’m a live and let-live type (as well as a former TCH employee), and fully support anyone who wants to detransition for whatever reason.
Yet there is simply zero need for a dedicated program at the end of the day — this is raw fascist political theater. Any run-of-the-mill pediatric endo and mental health provider are typically sufficient. It’s not that medically complex to go in reverse; you’re just trying to kickstart the HPGA back into gear and let endogenous hormones resume.
Devil’s advocate: Maybe this new group could treat a few weird cases where a kid was intersex and did have some corrective surgery they want undone? But nope, Texas Children’s already has a dedicated team of world-class urogenital anomaly specialists who are exactly the people you’d want for that.
You have more faith in Americans than I do. Where you see a "pray the gay away" operation forming, I see a "work will set you free" thing forming.
They're actually removing clinical care from prisons for trans.