In the first 24 hours after a court order allowed Dr. Ximena Lopez to temporarily resume gender-affirming medical care at Children’s Medical Center Dallas,...
Texas AG Paxton wants to intervene in battle over care for trans youth at Dallas hospital
In the exam room, her team of medical professionals is trying to fit in as many new patients as possible before the court’s two-week temporary restraining order against Children’s ends May 26. In the courtroom, Lopez’s legal team is seeking a temporary injunction so she can continue seeing new patients.
“They are much more in a crisis mode than what I’m used to,” she said. “Most of the patients I’ve seen so far are suicidal.”The future of transgender health care access in Texas will be determined by the courts. In addition to Lopez’s case against Children’s,to learn who directed the changes to the Genecis program.
The state has asked the court to allow it to intervene in case against Children’s and is also fighting a lawsuit over a directive to require child abuse investigations into families with transgender youth receiving certain medical treatments.and began to refer new underage patients who were seeking puberty suppressants and hormone therapy for the treatment of gender dysphoria to outside providers.
Transgender patients previously enrolled in Genecis still can access these treatments, UT Southwestern said, as can youth seeking hormones for other medical reasons like early puberty. The hospitals continue to provide mental health care to new child and adolescent patients experiencing gender dysphoria, which is the feeling of discomfort or distress that can occur in people who identify as a gender that is different from the gender or sex assigned at birth.
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