Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed the state's first lawsuit against a doctor under a law banning gender-affirming care for minors, accusing Dr. May Lau of providing transition treatments and falsifying medical records.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed the state's first lawsuit against a doctor under a law banning gender-affirming care for minors.Paxton is accusing Dr. May Lau, a pediatrician at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, of providing gender-transitioning treatments and falsifying medical records and prescriptions to do it.The lawsuit claims Lau prescribed testosterone to at least 21 patients between the ages of 14 and 17.
MORE NEWS ON THE FOX LOCAL APPIt also accuses Lau of putting a puberty-blocking device into a 15-year-old and falsely billed the patient's insurance for an endocrine disorder instead of gender dysmorphia.The filing is Paxton's first attempt to sue a doctor under Senate Bill 14, which passed in 2023.The law prevents doctors from prescribing hormones and other gender-affirming care to minors.
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