Texas AG sues doctor who allegedly provided transgender care to 21 minors
Texas AG sues doctor who allegedly provided transgender care to 21 minors
The suit is the first by an attorney general against an individual doctor for allegedly violating a restriction on gender-affirming care for minors.
The suit is the first by an attorney general against an individual doctor for allegedly violating a restriction on gender-affirming care for minors.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a Dallas doctor Thursday accusing her of providing transition-related care to nearly two dozen minors in violation of state law.
Paxton alleged that Dr. May Chi Lau, who specializes in adolescent medicine, provided hormone replacement therapy to 21 minors between October 2023 and August for the purpose of transitioning genders. In 2023, Texas enacted a law, Senate Bill 14, banning hormone replacement therapy and other forms of gender-affirming care for minors.
To add to the pile of evidence that this is all just hateful bigotry and has nothing to do with children's safety, cisgender children can still legally access these drugs, but not for the purpose of transitioning genders. The same drugs can still be used to delay aggressive puberty, which is a standard and relatively common usage, as well as other conditions that might affect a cisgender child. But a trans child who needs the same drugs for a different reason, will be told too bad, you're out of luck. So two children could walk into the same doctor's office and one will be turned away and forced to suffer through their gender dysphoria, with permanent repercussions for their mental health and body, and the other child will be treated with the drugs they need to be treated with. It's absurdly unfair, unequal, and purposefully harmful to a vulnerable population.
Tbf there are all kinds of medicine that are ok for one thing but not another, cocaine for instance.
Yeah. Cocaine is ok if you're trying to get an edge on the competition as a stock trader. But, not ok if you're black.
Except we don't have any widespread evidence for cocaine being taken outside of highly specific medicinal cases being helpful to the health and wellbeing of the individual.
When it comes to gender affirming care, we have substantial evidence that proves it is safe and effective, as even a cursory glance at medical research on the topic will show:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(23)00118-7/fulltext
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/09540261.2015.1115753
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abstract/2789423
Ken Paxton is a blight on humanity.
I hope you aren't insinuating Ken Paxton is human. He's hardly even organic.
It's important to remember that these people are also human.
Photos of Ken Paxton are permitted by the Taliban, because he isn’t concerned a living thing.
As doctors continue to flee the state
My doctor closed her practice in the state. She's the kindest doctor I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with, and I'm sad that I have to find a new one.
Fuck Ken Paxton. I hope he gets trapped in quicksand inhabited by starving sand fleas.
This doc is a hero!
Also, wouldn’t it be cool to send a message to Paxton, and send a few fed lawyers to be her defense…. ? (Biden… I’m looking at you.)
I met this dude a few years ago and he is straight up nuts. It wasn't like a brief thing. I spent hours with him. He's as much of a douche bag as he seems like. I remember him bragging about all the lawsuits he filed against the Biden administration - something like 80+ - and ranting about the stolen election. It amazes me that he holds elected office. He's a twat.
The doctor or the attorney general?
The AG. I didn't think there would be any confusion as to who I was referring to. LOL
Reminder that Texas has been Republican controlled for 28 years.
They've been voting for this reality for decades. People should move away from Texas.
Reminder that Texas's legislature and Congressiinal delegations were majority Democrat for 150 years, and it wasn't until the boost from W's Presidential election that they got their first majority.
They then gerrymandered the shit out of the state out of cycle (it has been redistricted in response to the 2000 census the previous session) to flip it from majority-democrat to a 2/3rds Republican delegation to the House in a single election cycle.
Texas isn't nearly as red as people think. They got a slim majority in 2000 and 2002 and then rigged the game with gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Ken Paxton is a ghoul
Is this the worst Republican in the bunch? Could be.
Politician, perhaps. But I'm going to have to put a spotlight on Jonathan Mitchell, who came up with the structure behind the Texas Heartbeat Bill, which did an end run around judicial review by allowing enforcement via civil action by damn near anyone. The usual way to legally dispute a potentially unconstitutional law is to sue the government officials that enforce it, but because there wasn't a specific person there was no real way to bring it to the judicial branch.
Sounds like a great strategy for reasonable gun legislation. Is your neighbor not responsibly securing their firearm? Sue them and get some money out of it.
We should punish the people hurting our children, like this jackass attorney general preventing them from getting treatment for Gender Dysphoria.
Allegedly this doctor is a hero
Why does he look like that alien from Men In Black that's basically just a giant space roach wearing a human's skin?
Ken "Edgar" Paxton
If he wanted to find a criminal, just look in the mirror.
Misread the title as implying people under 21 are minors in Texas.