Texas Attorney General Sues Dallas Pediatrician Over Alleged Transgender Treatments for Minors

“Texas passed a law to protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and damaging effects, doctors who continue to provide these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” said Attorney General Paxton.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Dr. May Chi Lau, a Dallas pediatrician, accusing her of violating state law by allegedly administering irreversible transgender medical procedures to 21 minors. The lawsuit claims Lau provided high-dose cross-sex hormones to underage patients using “false diagnoses and billing codes” to conceal the treatments, actions prohibited under Texas Senate Bill 14, which bans such interventions for minors.

If convicted, Lau could face severe penalties, including the loss of her medical license and $1 million in fines. Paxton emphasized that Texas passed this law to safeguard children from what he describes as “dangerous, unscientific medical interventions” with lasting consequences. Lau, a medical director at Children’s Medical Center Dallas and associate professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, is the first doctor to face legal action under the 2023 transgender-related restrictions.

This lawsuit marks the first of its kind by an attorney general in the U.S. as debates over transgender care for minors continue across the nation. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to review a similar law in Tennessee later this year, with a ruling anticipated in December.