Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday charged a doctor with providing illegal sex change procedures to nearly 20 minors.
Dr. May Lau director Doctors at Dallas Children’s Medical Center’s Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic performed “experimental” transgender medical procedures on at least 21 children, including children as young as 14, the lawsuit alleges. claim.
“Texas passed a law to protect children from dangerous, unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and harmful effects,” Paxton said in the paper. statement. “Doctors who continue to offer these harmful ‘sex-changing’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
In June, the state Supreme Court upheld Texas’ ban on gender reassignment procedures for minors. (Related: Supreme Court should consider Biden administration’s intervention in medical guidelines promoting child gender reassignment)
“The debate in Texas over the legality of dangerous and experimental medical procedures that seek to transition or affirm a child’s belief that his or her gender identity does not match his or her biological sex is over,” the complaint states. There is.
BREAKING NEWS: My Office Sues Doctor for Illegally Providing Harmful “Gender Reassignment” Treatment to Nearly 20 Texas Children
My office sued a North Texas doctor for providing prohibited “gender reassignment” treatment in clear violation of Texas law. https://t.co/8oyNSIR6bE
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 17, 2024
Ms. Lau, who is characterized in the lawsuit as a “radical gender activist,” falsified medical records, prescriptions, and billing records to mislead pharmacies and insurance companies, resulting in prescriptions for hormone therapy being reversed. It is said that the program was disguised as if it were not intended to support children who were attempting to do so. sex.
Lau allegedly billed insurance companies for a “puberty blocker device” for a 15-year-old patient using a diagnosis code for an endocrine disorder. The complaint alleges that she “falsified that she was treating patients with unspecified endocrine disorders when in fact they were attempting to transition patients’ biological sex or to promote the belief that patients’ gender identity did not match their biological sex.” They claim that they are using the billing code to “affirm their claims.”
in 2020 presentation Lau and her assistant, who are cited in the lawsuit, admit that “we have had young people come to our clinic who had surgery on the top of their heads before starting hormone therapy.”
Dallas Children’s Medical Center did not respond to a request for comment.
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