Texas AG sues doctor accused of providing transgender care to 21 minors
Source: NBC News
Oct. 17, 2024, 2:51 PM EDT / Updated Oct. 17, 2024, 4:18 PM EDT
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a Dallas doctor Thursday accusing her of providing transition-related care to nearly two dozen minors in violation of state law.
Paxton alleged that Dr. May Chi Lau, who specializes in adolescent medicine, provided hormone replacement therapy to 21 minors from October 2023 to August for the purpose of transitioning genders. Texas enacted a law, Senate Bill 14, last year banning hormone replacement therapy and other forms of gender-affirming care for minors.
“Texas passed a law to protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and damaging effects,” Paxton said in a statement Thursday. “Doctors who continue to provide these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
The statement alleged that Lau used "false diagnoses and billing codes" to mask "unlawful prescriptions." Neither Lau nor her employer, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, immediately replied to requests for comment.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/texas-ag-sues-doctor-allegedly-provided-transgender-care-21-minors-rcna175988
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She treated them during the injunction? Would that mitigate? Bottom line: this sh¡t by these AG's needs to stop. It's harassment of the vulnerable and they have no business weighing in on medical care. They can't even govern without malice towards their constituents. OMFG!
Makes me damn furious.
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