Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken legal action to halt the practices of three doctors whom he has accused of unlawfully prescribing "gender transition" drugs to minors. According to the Texas Attorney General's Office, Dr. May Lau and Dr. M. Brett Cooper have agreed to Rule 11 agreements that cease their medical practices involving patients entirely, while Dr. Hector Granados is under a court injunction barring him from administering these specific treatments to children.
The lawsuits, filed by Paxton in late 2024, allege that the doctors were providing high-dose cross-sex hormones in violation of Texas law. Paxton argues that these interventions can have damaging long-term effects, and that current scientific evidence does not support the treatments' purported benefits. Investigations by the Office of the Attorney General reportedly revealed the doctors used false diagnoses and billing codes, to disguise the nature of the treatments they were providing.
This move aligns with a recent Executive Order from President Trump that aims to shield children from transgender treatment. The President has instructed the Department of Justice to coordinate with State Attorneys General to enforce this directive. Paxton's enforcement in Texas is a direct response to both the state-level prohibition and the broader federal strategy.
"Texas law forbids doctors from endangering children by prescribing illegal ‘gender transition’ drugs based on radical theories divorced from reality. In America, we recognize that there are only two unchangeable genders and that children should be protected," according to the Office of the Attorney General. Paxton firmly believes that the law should be upheld to prevent doctors from providing these drugs to minors.
