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In Texas, cases are mounting against physicians who broke state law by prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to minors.
In Texas, cases are mounting against physicians who broke state law by prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to minors under the guise of “gender affirming care.”
On Oct. 17, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Dr. May Lau, a pediatrician and professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The suit claims that Lau treated 21 children with hormone blockers after the practice became illegal in the state and then “falsified” medical and billing records and prescriptions to manipulate the appearance of the care she provided.
Less than two weeks later, Paxton filed another suit accusing Dr. Hector Granados, an El Paso-area pediatric endocrinologist and known “gender care” provider, of “harming the health and safety of Texas children.” Paxton’s suit against Granados alleges the physician falsified medical records, prescriptions, and billing records to “intentionally conceal the unlawful conduct in violation” of Texas law.
On Nov. 4 Paxton named a third physician, Dr. M. Brett Cooper, in a lawsuit for allegedly providing “gender transition” drugs to minors after Texas law forbade it.
In a statement, Paxton said that Texas is “cracking down” on physicians who continue to illegally prescribe such drugs to minors and “will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
Paxton has strong legal backing. Both suits hinge on recently passed Texas law SB 14, upheld by the Texas Supreme Court in June 2024. The law states that healthcare providers may not “affirm the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex.” Providers may not prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children with the intent of altering their expression of gender. If found guilty, physicians face loss of licensure and a potential $1 million fine. --->READ MORE HERE
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Doctors in Boston have blasted a controversial move by the city's major hospital to halve the assessment time for transgender children who want life-changing medical interventions.
Boston Children's Hospital reduced the time for in-person assessments from four to two hours, after which point doctors can recommend treatment including puberty blockers and hormone medication to kids.
'That's crazy in my mind,' Laura Edwards-Leeper, the former lead psychologist of the Boston Children's gender clinic, told the Boston Globe.
But others say the shortened assessments were needed because of the gender clinic's increasing caseload in recent years.
'We were able to get all the information in much less time,' co-director of the clinic and psychologist Kerry McGregor testified at trial, per the Globe.
The assessment policy, which was implemented in 2018, is facing fresh scrutiny in a discrimination lawsuit laying bare the inner workings of the gender clinic.
Former research director of the clinic Amy Tishelman, 68, launched the suit this year, claiming staff discriminated against her based on her sex and age before firing her in retaliation for her suing them.
Boston Children's Hospital has hit back, saying Tishelman's claims are false and she was fired over a privacy breach. 'The hospital cannot comment on ongoing litigation,' a representative told the Globe.
Tishelman's lawsuit also spotlights the in-person assessment policy because she had been working on research into what the long-term impacts of shortening the sessions would be when she was fired. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
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