Texas Settlement on Child Mutilation: Secular Law’s Hollow Triumph Over Demonic Ideology
The National Catholic Register (CNA) portal reports that Texas Children’s Hospital has executed a historic settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the State of Texas, agreeing to pay $10 million — $8.5 million to the state — and to fund a first-of-its-kind “detransition clinic” for five years. The agreement permanently bars the hospital from providing “gender-transition” interventions (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones) to minors and mandates the termination and permanent blacklisting of five physicians accused of continuing these procedures secretly after Texas law explicitly banned them in 2023. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hailed the settlement as a “resounding defeat for the radical gender ideology,” while Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche vowed to “end the destructive and discredited practice of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’.” This legal victory, celebrated by the conciliar press as a triumph of justice, is in reality a stark manifestation of the impotence of secular law severed from the Kingship of Christ: it punishes the flesh but leaves the soul — and the demonic ideology driving the mutilation — entirely untouched.