Two years ago, I complained that: “Radical transgender directives just keep coming from the executive branch of the federal government.”

There’s been a stunning reversal.

States fought back against these federal decrees. In May 2023, the Texas governor signed a law prohibiting medical facilities from providing drug and surgical “gender transition” interventions for minors. At that time, the White House was all in with its support of so-called “gender affirming care” — the drugs, hormones and surgeries that were devastating the bodies of so many confused young people.

The Texas law came just as the public learned that Texas Children’s Hospital, the world’s largest pediatric hospital, was providing these “therapies” — including mutilating surgeries — to minors as young as eleven. A courageous whistleblower, surgeon Eithan Haim, provided investigative reporter Christopher Rufo with evidence that “the hospital was miscoding gender transition procedures for minors to conceal them from outside scrutiny —even after the hospital had publicly claimed to stop all such procedures.” Chris Rufo published a report exposing these activities. He maintains that, in the documents Dr. Haim shared with him, all personally identifiable information was redacted.

Still, the Biden administration indicted Dr. Haim on four federal felony counts for violating HIPPA. Once President Trump took office, the charges were dismissed. But, the hospital was not held accountable.

Until now.

Last week, the U.S. Justice Department and the Texas Attorney General announced a settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital, which includes a commitment by the hospital to never again carry out gender transition procedures on minors. Under the settlement, the hospital must pay $10 million to cover its fraud against Medicaid, and fire five doctors who performed the transition procedures.

The settlement requires the hospital to establish what the AG’s office describes as a “Detransition Clinic” designed to help “reverse the damage” caused by these draconian interventions.

Some damage never disappears. Eithan Haim says, “I’ve seen true evil up close.”