Originally published at National Catholic Register
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a doctor for reportedly violating state law by prescribing transgender drugs to underage children.
A law passed by the state Legislature last year prohibits doctors from performing “gender transition” surgeries on minors; it also forbids doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.
The state Supreme Court upheld that law in June of this year. On Thursday Paxton said in a press release that a doctor in the state had violated the law by providing illegal hormones to children.
A Dallas-area doctor “illegally provided high-dose cross-sex hormones to 21 minor patients for the direct purpose of ‘transitioning’ the child’s biological sex,” the release said.
The doctor “allegedly used false diagnoses and billing codes to mask these unlawful prescriptions,” it said.
The state’s filing in district court alleged that pediatrician May Lau “engaged in deceptive trade practices, including by misleading pharmacies, insurance providers, and/or patients.”
The doctor allegedly falsified medical records in order to prescribe testosterone to young girls for “gender transitions.”
The state described Lau as a “scofflaw” who put “the health and safety of minors at risk” in the alleged fraud scheme. The hormones were allegedly prescribed to “at least 21 minor patients.”
“Texas passed a law to protect children
