DALLAS, TX- A Texas doctor is facing legal action after allegedly using chemicals involved in gender transition procedures on minors.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the lawsuit against Dr. May Lau on Thursday, accusing the Dallas-area physician of violating a law against such treatments on minors enacted by the Texas legislature last year, according to Fox News.
"Today, enforcement begins against those who have violated the law," Paxton said of the action. The state prosecutor is accusing Lau of utilizing testosterone on more than 20 females ages 14 to 17 in a bid to affirm their belief of a male gender. Lau is further accused of "falsifying medical records, prescriptions, and billing records to represent that her testosterone prescriptions are for something other than transitioning a child’s biological sex or affirming a child’s belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex."
The lawsuit seeks a court ruling prohibiting Lau from prescribing substances such as testosterone and estrogen to minors for purposes of gender transition, as well as writing prescriptions and billing for gender transition treatment generally. Paxton is seeking a fine of $10,000 per violation of the court order, describing Lau as a "radical gender activist" and "scofflaw" in filing documents.
Paxton pointed to Texas state law barring such treatments for minors in a statement provided to Fox.
"Texas passed a law to protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and damaging effects. Doctors who continue to provide these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
Paxton accuses Lau of purposefully and falsely billing an insurance provider for an endocrine disorder device- when the doctor actually placed a puberty blocker device into a fifteen-year old child, according to the Texas Tribune.
Lau hasn't publicly responded to the lawsuit.
Jonathan Covey, policy director of Texas Values, hailed Paxton's action- the first of its kind from the Texas Attorney General's office- in a news release.
“We’re grateful for the Texas Attorney General’s leadership in protecting kids from these harmful treatments and procedures."
“No one is above the law, and it is horrific to hurt little children in order to advance radical gender ideology and play political games.”
The use of so-called gender transition treatments on minors has become a hotly criticized practice by skeptics of gender ideology, who object to the use of life-altering and often permanent treatments on children yet to progress to an age of maturity, or complete puberty.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the lawsuit against Dr. May Lau on Thursday, accusing the Dallas-area physician of violating a law against such treatments on minors enacted by the Texas legislature last year, according to Fox News.
"Today, enforcement begins against those who have violated the law," Paxton said of the action. The state prosecutor is accusing Lau of utilizing testosterone on more than 20 females ages 14 to 17 in a bid to affirm their belief of a male gender. Lau is further accused of "falsifying medical records, prescriptions, and billing records to represent that her testosterone prescriptions are for something other than transitioning a child’s biological sex or affirming a child’s belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex."
The lawsuit seeks a court ruling prohibiting Lau from prescribing substances such as testosterone and estrogen to minors for purposes of gender transition, as well as writing prescriptions and billing for gender transition treatment generally. Paxton is seeking a fine of $10,000 per violation of the court order, describing Lau as a "radical gender activist" and "scofflaw" in filing documents.
Paxton pointed to Texas state law barring such treatments for minors in a statement provided to Fox.
"Texas passed a law to protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and damaging effects. Doctors who continue to provide these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
Paxton accuses Lau of purposefully and falsely billing an insurance provider for an endocrine disorder device- when the doctor actually placed a puberty blocker device into a fifteen-year old child, according to the Texas Tribune.
Lau hasn't publicly responded to the lawsuit.
Jonathan Covey, policy director of Texas Values, hailed Paxton's action- the first of its kind from the Texas Attorney General's office- in a news release.
“We’re grateful for the Texas Attorney General’s leadership in protecting kids from these harmful treatments and procedures."
“No one is above the law, and it is horrific to hurt little children in order to advance radical gender ideology and play political games.”
The use of so-called gender transition treatments on minors has become a hotly criticized practice by skeptics of gender ideology, who object to the use of life-altering and often permanent treatments on children yet to progress to an age of maturity, or complete puberty.
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