Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a UT Southwestern associate professor and physician, accusing her of administering gender transition treatments to minors, marking the state's latest move concerning transgender-related issues.
On Thursday, Paxton filed a lawsuit in a state court in Collin County against Dr. May C. Lau, accusing her of administering "high-dose cross-sex hormones" to 21 minors, according to Dallas News.
AG Paxton's lawsuit included 21 unidentified minors, all falling between the ages of 14 and 17, who had been prescribed testosterone and various other prescriptions with the goal of "transitioning their biological sex or affirming their belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex."
Dr. Lau specializes in adolescent and young adult medicine at UT Southwestern, which is a medical research center as well as a public university.
"Lau is a scofflaw who is putting the health and safety of minors at risk by prescribing testosterone, a controlled substance, to biological female minors for the purposes of transitioning their biological sex or affirming their belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex in violation of Tex. Health & Safety Code," the lawsuit alleged.
The lawsuit also labels Lau as a "radical gender activist", pointing to her treatments of gender dysphoria as well as her research on gender-affirming care.
Dr. Lau and UT Southwestern were not available for comment.
In 2023, the Texas Legislature enacted a strict ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors, prohibiting any action to "affirm the child's perception of the child's sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child's biological sex," Dallas News revealed.
The law, signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, was later upheld as constitutional by the Texas Supreme Court.
