Ken Paxton sued 3 doctors for allegedly violating the state’s law on providing gender-affirming care to minors.
Two North Texas doctors have agreed to cease treating patients following a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
Paxton also filed a lawsuit against a third doctor, who is still awaiting a trial date.
The legal action, filed in October and November, targeted Dallas doctors May Lau and M. Brett Cooper, as well as Dr. Hector Granados from El Paso. The suit claims they violated a Texas law passed in 2023, which prohibits healthcare providers from administering gender-affirming care to minors. This includes the prescription of puberty blockers and hormones for medical transitioning.
Although the law faced challenges in Travis County court, the Texas Supreme Court allowed it to take effect.
In the lawsuit, Paxton accused Lau, a professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Medical Director of the Adolescent and Young Adult clinic at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, of providing gender transition care to at least 21 minors and falsifying records to disguise the purpose of her prescriptions.
Paxton made similar claims against Cooper, an assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern and an adolescent medicine physician at Children’s Medical Center. He alleged that Cooper provided gender transition care to at least 15 minors and altered medical records to conceal the true nature of the prescriptions.
Paxton announced on Tuesday that agreements were reached with Lau and Cooper last month, barring them from treating patients and limiting them to academic, research, or administrative medical roles. These agreements are temporary and will remain in place until altered by another court order or terminated by either party.
Dr. Granados, an El Paso pediatric endocrinologist, is temporarily prohibited from prescribing puberty blockers or hormones to minors for gender transitioning. A Kaufman County judge issued the temporary injunction last month.
Paxton’s statement also noted the development followed President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at limiting gender-affirming care for young people.