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<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a doctor for reportedly violating state law by prescribing transgender drugs to underage children.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The state Supreme Court <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258161/texas-supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-transgender-procedures-for-minors" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">upheld that law in June of this year.</a> On Thursday Paxton <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-doctor-illegally-providing-harmful-gender-transition-treatments" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">said in a press release</a> that a doctor in the state had violated the law by providing illegal hormones to children.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The doctor “allegedly used false diagnoses and billing codes to mask these unlawful prescriptions,” it said. </p>
<p>The state’s <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/SB14%20Illegal%20Procedures%20Lawsuit%20Filed%20Copy.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">filing in district court</a> alleged that pediatrician May Lau “engaged in deceptive trade practices, including by misleading pharmacies, insurance providers, and/or patients.”</p>
<p>The doctor allegedly falsified medical records in order to prescribe testosterone to young girls for “gender transitions.” </p>
<p>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.” </p>
<p>“Texas passed a law to protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and damaging effects,” Paxton said in the press release. </p>
<p>“Doctors who continue to provide these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” he said. </p>
<p>The availability of transgender treatments for children — including, in some cases, the castration and/or sterilization of boys and girls under the age of 18 — has become one of the most contested parts of the ongoing debates around LGBT politics. </p>
<p>Earlier this month a watchdog group revealed that nearly 150 Catholic hospitals across the United States <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259761/report-nearly-150-catholic-hospitals-provided-transgender-drugs-or-surgeries-to-children" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">provided children with transgender drugs</a> or performed gender-transition surgeries on them between 2019 and 2023. </p>
<p>Those medical procedures contradict Church teaching and the U.S. bishops’ prohibition on Catholic health care providers offering such interventions.</p>
<p>The U.S. Catholic bishops <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253898/us-bishops-catholic-healthcare-providers-shouldnt-perform-gender-transition-procedures" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">clarified in March of last year</a> that “gender transition” interventions are not to be performed because they do not respect the fact that God has created each person as a unity of body and soul.</p>
<p>“The body is not an object, a mere tool at the disposal of the soul, one that each person may dispose of according to his or her own will, but it is a constitutive part of the human subject, a gift to be received, respected, and cared for as something intrinsic to the person,” the bishops’ Committee on Doctrine wrote.</p>
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