diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
index fa65841b75a..20304f28f1c 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
@@ -6646,6 +6646,7 @@ public class com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerView
 	public fun <init> (Landroid/content/Context;)V
 	public fun getLayoutDirection ()I
 	protected fun onLayout (ZIIII)V
+	public fun setRemoveClippedSubviews (Z)V
 }
 
 public final class com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerViewManager : com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactClippingViewManager {
@@ -7933,6 +7934,7 @@ public class com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup : android/view/ViewGro
 	public fun onInterceptTouchEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
 	protected fun onLayout (ZIIII)V
 	protected fun onMeasure (II)V
+	protected fun onSizeChanged (IIII)V
 	public fun onTouchEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
 	public fun removeView (Landroid/view/View;)V
 	public fun removeViewAt (I)V
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerView.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerView.java
index 76e0c1c8ce3..fbb10ecfc40 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerView.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollContainerView.java
@@ -36,6 +36,21 @@ public class ReactHorizontalScrollContainerView extends ReactViewGroup {
     return mLayoutDirection;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public void setRemoveClippedSubviews(boolean removeClippedSubviews) {
+    // Clipping doesn't work well for horizontal scroll views in RTL mode - in both
+    // Fabric and non-Fabric - especially with TextInputs. The behavior you could see
+    // is TextInputs being blurred immediately after being focused. So, for now,
+    // it's easier to just disable this for these specific RTL views.
+    // TODO T86027499: support `setRemoveClippedSubviews` in RTL mode
+    if (getLayoutDirection() == LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL) {
+      super.setRemoveClippedSubviews(false);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    super.setRemoveClippedSubviews(removeClippedSubviews);
+  }
+
   @Override
   protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
     if (getLayoutDirection() == LAYOUT_DIRECTION_RTL) {
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java
index 263b765d8ca..b50a6257b25 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java
@@ -195,12 +195,7 @@ public class ReactViewGroup extends ViewGroup
 
   @Override
   protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
-    // If the size or position of the view has changed it may intersect different children than
-    // before. If "removeClippedSubviews" is set, we must re-evaluate intersection to render newly
-    // visible children, and remove those no longer visible.
-    if (changed && mRemoveClippedSubviews) {
-      updateClippingRect();
-    }
+    // No-op since UIManagerModule handles actually laying out children.
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -487,6 +482,14 @@ public class ReactViewGroup extends ViewGroup
     return super.getChildVisibleRect(child, r, offset);
   }
 
+  @Override
+  protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
+    super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
+    if (mRemoveClippedSubviews) {
+      updateClippingRect();
+    }
+  }
+
   @Override
   protected void onAttachedToWindow() {
     super.onAttachedToWindow();