Texas has successfully transformed one of the main operating bases of the "trans" regime into a refuge for the regime's victims.
Quick backgroundDespite chatter in 2022 about ending the practice, physicians at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston continued performing sex-rejection interventions on minors.
'A clinic cannot give me back what I lost, but it can help patients rebuild their lives.'
In 2023, following whistleblower revelations about the ongoing sex-rejection interventions at Texas Children's Hospital, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into it.
A lengthy investigation by his office's Healthcare Program Enforcement Division then ensued, and Paxton secured a settlement with Texas Children's Hospital earlier this year.
The hospital was required, among other things, to:
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Per the terms of the settlement, Texas Children's Hospital was also required to establish a detransition clinic to "help patients reverse the damage caused by ideologically motivated physicians who harmed patients by performing dangerous medical interventions for the purpose of 'transitioning' them."
First in the nationPaxton announced on Tuesday that Texas Children's has opened the detransition clinic.
Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who has raised awareness about the horrors of sex-rejection medical interventions, told Blaze News, "Texas Children’s accepting appointment requests for detransition care is significant because people living with the consequences of transition deserve to be taken seriously."
"A clinic cannot give me back what I lost, but it can help patients rebuild their lives," continued Cole. "The medical system has a responsibility to care for the people who trusted it, including when those patients regret what was done to them."
According to Texas Children's, the clinic offers a team of multi-disciplinary experts with specialties including endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, psychiatry, and speech pathology.
The hospital is obligated to provide all care at no cost to patients for the next five years. To fund services beyond the initial five-year window, the hospital must include the detransition clinic as a specific gift designation on its "Giving" webpage.
Paxton vowed that he will "ensure that this clinic provides the care and support that victims of the radical left’s gender ideology deserve."
"This is an important step toward caring for a group of patients who have long been overlooked," Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, said in a statement to Blaze News. "Detransitioners have suffered because of the lies sold to them by transgender activists. Their struggles were often dismissed or ignored by the medical establishment. Yet they deserve as much support and care as we can give."
Miceli added, "The Detransition Clinic at Texas Children’s is a step in the right direction. We hope to see more hospitals open similar clinics, without the Department of Justice having to step in."
Cole suggested that the establishment of a detransition clinic presents a great opportunity "for research into improving life after transition."
"There are serious unanswered questions about how best to care for detransitioners," Cole told Blaze News. "If Texas Children’s is going to serve these patients properly, it needs to confront those questions: Which treatments actually help? What can realistically be restored? How do patients’ physical and psychological needs change over time?"
The clinic should be judged on whether it materially helps victims and whether it advances that knowledge, said Cole.
Paxton, who faces off with a supporter of the sex-rejection regime in the race for a seat in the U.S. Senate next week, said on Tuesday, "We will protect our children and defeat the dangerous ideology that has inflicted irreversible harm on innocent kids."
Texas Children's Hospital confirmed in a statement to Blaze News that "the clinic is operational, and we are complying with all requirements in the settlement agreement."
Just a week away from Election Day, Democrat James Talarico still holds a slight edge over Paxton in the Texas U.S. Senate race, according to Blaze News' Poll Watch.
Editor's note: This article has been edited after publication to incorporate comment from Texas Children's Hospital.
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Some smart TVs won't take no for an answer.
When these same machines don't get what they're looking for, they may implement work-arounds in order to pry into a user's private life.
'... a company that truly listens to its customers.'
One researcher decided to reverse-engineer a Samsung smart TV and allegedly found numerous disturbing features buried in its programming.
Some of the most damning allegations include facial recognition code that placed "bounded boxes" around faces, as seen when using a smartphone, for example.
The researcher — going by Log4j — also revealed what he deemed to be sinister listening habits of the televisions.
While many Samsung smart TVs have a built-in microphone, if it doesn't, "it will look for connected devices with one, such as a soundbar or a connected bluetooth device," the researcher claimed.
Moreover, the audio is allegedly broken down into categories before it is reported to its masters. Code purportedly showed "dog-barking" and "baby-crying" events, with the code even noting the TV's camera.
"Finally found a company that truly listens to its customers," the researcher joked.
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The self-described "reverse engineer" said he uncovered dozens of pages of functions that he hoped to discuss, all by simply running his personal TV's code through an AI agent.
For his Samsung, the researcher said it loads a "region specific convolutional neural network" that tracks usage in apps on the TV. This includes what type of YouTube videos a user watches, which ads are skipped, and video retention time.
"So glad they're interested in me," he wrote.
Another researcher from the Bitcoin world, Marty Bent, claimed that Samsung TVs also have an "always-on hot mic functionality" and "automatic content recognition."
Bent likened the purchase of a new TV to signing up for an agreement with 400 of the company's partners.
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The microphones on Samsung TVs have already become a rather public and contentious point for users, and Samsung even provides instructions for how to manually turn the microphone off for many of its TVs.
While some models purport to not have microphones at all and do not have the switch, internal settings show microphone access. Those consumers can still set up voice recognition with Samsung's Bixby, a virtual assistant developed by the company. This can be accomplished with a microphone through a remote or other remote devices.
Samsung did not immediately reply to a request for comment about these allegedly hidden features and has not provided public comment on them, either.
As this is an ongoing story, information will be updated as it is received.
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