diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
index 79e57da000f..6eba8f35ba9 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
@@ -6959,6 +6959,9 @@ public final class com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContaine
 	public static final field Companion Lcom/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerViewManager$Companion;
 	public static final field REACT_CLASS Ljava/lang/String;
 	public fun <init> ()V
+	public synthetic fun createViewInstance (ILcom/facebook/react/uimanager/ThemedReactContext;Lcom/facebook/react/uimanager/ReactStylesDiffMap;Lcom/facebook/react/uimanager/StateWrapper;)Landroid/view/View;
+	public synthetic fun createViewInstance (Lcom/facebook/react/uimanager/ThemedReactContext;)Landroid/view/View;
+	public fun createViewInstance (Lcom/facebook/react/uimanager/ThemedReactContext;)Lcom/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup;
 	public fun getName ()Ljava/lang/String;
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerLegacyView.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerLegacyView.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..84c7647053a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerLegacyView.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+package com.facebook.react.views.scroll
+
+import android.content.Context
+import com.facebook.react.modules.i18nmanager.I18nUtil
+import com.facebook.react.views.view.ReactViewGroup
+
+/**
+ * Used by legacy/Paper renderer to perform offsetting of scroll content when the app-wide layout
+ * direction is RTL. Contextually set layout direction is not respected by legacy renderer.
+ */
+internal class ReactHorizontalScrollContainerLegacyView(context: Context) :
+    ReactViewGroup(context) {
+  private val isRTL: Boolean = I18nUtil.instance.isRTL(context)
+
+  override fun setRemoveClippedSubviews(removeClippedSubviews: Boolean) {
+    // removeClippedSubviews logic may read metrics before the offsetting we do in onLayout() and is
+    // such unsafe
+    if (isRTL) {
+      super.setRemoveClippedSubviews(false)
+      return
+    }
+
+    super.setRemoveClippedSubviews(removeClippedSubviews)
+  }
+
+  protected override fun onLayout(changed: Boolean, left: Int, top: Int, right: Int, bottom: Int) {
+    if (isRTL) {
+      // When the layout direction is RTL, we expect Yoga to give us a layout
+      // that extends off the screen to the left so we re-center it with left=0
+      val newLeft = 0
+      val width = right - left
+      val newRight = newLeft + width
+      setLeft(newLeft)
+      setTop(top)
+      setRight(newRight)
+      setBottom(bottom)
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerViewManager.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerViewManager.kt
index f1f31d8487a..c9d6c01e065 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerViewManager.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerViewManager.kt
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
 package com.facebook.react.views.scroll
 
 import com.facebook.react.module.annotations.ReactModule
+import com.facebook.react.uimanager.ReactStylesDiffMap
+import com.facebook.react.uimanager.StateWrapper
+import com.facebook.react.uimanager.ThemedReactContext
+import com.facebook.react.uimanager.common.UIManagerType
+import com.facebook.react.uimanager.common.ViewUtil
+import com.facebook.react.views.view.ReactViewGroup
 import com.facebook.react.views.view.ReactViewManager
 
 /** View manager for {@link ReactHorizontalScrollContainerView} components. */
@@ -15,7 +21,28 @@ import com.facebook.react.views.view.ReactViewManager
 public class ReactHorizontalScrollContainerViewManager : ReactViewManager() {
   override public fun getName(): String = REACT_CLASS
 
+  protected override fun createViewInstance(
+      reactTag: Int,
+      context: ThemedReactContext,
+      initialProps: ReactStylesDiffMap?,
+      stateWrapper: StateWrapper?
+  ): ReactViewGroup {
+    check(uiManagerType == null)
+    uiManagerType = ViewUtil.getUIManagerType(reactTag)
+    val view = super.createViewInstance(reactTag, context, initialProps, stateWrapper)
+    uiManagerType = null
+    return view
+  }
+
+  public override fun createViewInstance(context: ThemedReactContext): ReactViewGroup {
+    return when (checkNotNull(uiManagerType)) {
+      UIManagerType.FABRIC -> ReactViewGroup(context)
+      else -> ReactHorizontalScrollContainerLegacyView(context)
+    }
+  }
+
   public companion object {
     public const val REACT_CLASS: String = "AndroidHorizontalScrollContentView"
+    private @UIManagerType var uiManagerType: Int? = null
   }
 }