Texas doctor accused of illegally providing transgender hormone treatments to minors

A Dallas doc faces legal enactment from Texas implicit accusations of unlawfully providing cross-sex hormones to transgender youths. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a suit against Dr. May Lau connected Thursday, alleging that the doc provided prohibited "gender transition" hormones to implicit 20 adolescents successful usurpation of a Republican-backed prohibition that took effect successful Texas past year.

This lawsuit is the archetypal clip a authorities has attempted to enforce laws that prohibition transgender aesculapian procedures for minors, the Associated Press reported. 

"Today, enforcement begins against those who person violated the law," the lawyer general's bureau said successful the lawsuit, which was filed successful suburban Collin County. 

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton arrives with erstwhile  President Trump astatine his transgression proceedings successful New York connected April 30. (Justin Lane/Reuters)

Under Texas law, doctors are not permitted to supply surgery, puberty blockers oregon cross-sex hormones to children for the intent of affirming their self-professed sex individuality successful a mode that is inconsistent with their biologic sex. 

The suit alleges that Lau, a prof astatine the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center successful Dallas and a specializer successful teen medicine, illegally prescribed testosterone to astatine slightest 21 biologic females betwixt the ages of 14 and 17 to modulation to antheral oregon affirm their sex identity. It refers to Lau arsenic a "scofflaw" and "radical sex activist." 

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LGBTQ+ activists protestation Senate Bill 14, that would prohibition gender-affirming aesculapian attraction for transgender children, astatine the Texas Capitol, Friday, May 12, 2023, successful Austin, Texas. (AP)

Lau is accused of "falsifying aesculapian records, prescriptions, and billing records to correspond that her testosterone prescriptions are for thing different than transitioning a child’s biologic enactment oregon affirming a child’s content that their sex individuality is inconsistent with their biologic sex."

The authorities of Texas has asked a tribunal for an injunction that would artifact Lau from prescribing testosterone and estrogen to minors for the intent of sex transition, arsenic good arsenic penning prescriptions and billing for sex modulation treatments "under mendacious diagnoses, specified arsenic endocrine disorder." Lau faces fines of up to $10,000 per violation. 

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Hand of doc with 2 injection vials for attraction with Testosterone and Estrogen hormones (iStock)

Dr. Lau and UT Southwestern did not instantly respond to requests for remark from Fox News Digital.

"Texas passed a instrumentality to support children from these unsafe unscientific aesculapian interventions that person irreversible and damaging effects," Paxton said successful a statement. "Doctors who proceed to supply these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments volition beryllium prosecuted to the afloat grade of the law."

At slightest 26 states person adopted laws restricting oregon banning transgender aesculapian procedures for transgender minors, and astir of those states look lawsuits. Federal judges person struck down the bans successful Arkansas and Florida arsenic unconstitutional, though a national appeals tribunal has stayed the Florida ruling. A judge’s orders are successful spot to temporarily artifact enforcement of the prohibition successful Montana. New Hampshire restrictions are to instrumentality effect successful January.

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The suit comes conscionable weeks earlier an predetermination successful which Republicans person attacked Democrats for supporting transgender hormone therapies and sex-change country for minors. GOP Sen. Ted Cruz has repeatedly blasted his Democratic challenger, Rep. Colin Allred, for his enactment of transgender rights.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed the transgender aesculapian process ban. He is besides the archetypal politician to order investigations of parents who question transgender procedures for their children.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.