Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a UT Southwestern associate professor and doctor for allegedly providing gender transition treatments to minors in the...
The Texas attorney general says the doctor’s license should be revoked for treating of 21 minors in violation of the state’s ban.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday , Feb. 23, 2024. , who he says provided treatments to 21 minors in the form of “high-dose cross-sex hormones and used false diagnoses and billing codes to mask the care.
Portrait of Dr. May Lau, an associate professor at University of Texas Southwestern and an attending physican at the adolescent and young adult clinic at the Childen's Medical Center.The Texas Legislature passed an aggressive ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors in 2023, making it illegal to “affirm the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex.” The laws was signed by Gov.
Paxton’s lawsuit listed 21 unnamed minors between ages 14 and 17 who were prescribed testosterone and other prescriptions used for “transitioning their biological sex or affirming their belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex.” The suit said Lau tried to circumvent the law by writing prescriptions before the law went into effect on Sept. 1, 2023, that were to be filled or refilled after the enacted date.. She graduated from Albany Medical College in New York state in 1998 and was a fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Hospital in Houston from 2001-04. She does not have any medical malpractice investigations on record, according to the state medical regulator’s website.
DPS has asked Paxton for a written opinion on the legality of ignoring the court orders. That opinion has not yet been issued.Recall of chicken and meat products for listeria hits H-E-B, Target, Aldi, Kroger and moreKyle Arnold is the assisant business editor at the Dallas Morning News and spent four years at the publication covering aviation, air travel and the aerospace industry. He previously covered business at the Orlando Sentinel, Tulsa World and The Monitor in McAllen, Texas.
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