Texas AG sues doctor for violating ban on prescribing trans drugs to kids
October 18, 2024
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a suit against a doctor who allegedly broke state law by prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to 21 minor patients.
The Christian Post reports that the complaint was filed Thursday against Dr. May C. Lau, accusing her of engaging in “illegal, dangerous, and experimental medical procedures” on “at least 21 minor patients” with the intention of “transitioning their biological sex or affirming their belief that their gender identities are inconsistent with their biological sex.”
Lau is an employee of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and has hospital privileges at Children’s Medical Center Dallas and Children’s Medical Center Plano.
She is accused of violating Texas Health & Safety Code § 161.702(3) by “providing, prescribing, administering, or dispensing testosterone to minor patients for the purposes of transitioning their biological sex or affirming their belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex.”
The suit also accuses Lau of misleading pharmacies, insurance provides and patients by “falsifying patient medical records, prescriptions, and billing records to indicate that the use of puberty blockers for minor patients are for something other than transitioning their biological sex or affirming their belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex.”
The statement released by Paxton on Thursday states: “Texas passed a law to protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and damaging effects. Doctors who continue to provide these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
According to the Christian Post, SB 14, which became law in September 2023, bans medical professionals from performing body-mutilating sex-change surgeries and from prescribing cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to children.
The law allows for limited exceptions for children who are “experiencing precocious puberty or born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development.”
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