A Texas doctor faces a lawsuit from the state after allegedly prescribing transgender hormone treatments to over 20 biological females in violation of a Republican-backed ban.

The suit is the first by an attorney general against an individual doctor for allegedly violating a restriction on gender-affirming care for minors.

Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas sued a Dallas pediatrician on Thursday, accusing her of providing gender transition treatment to minors in violation of a 2023 state law. Mr. Paxton described the suit as the state’s first enforcement action under the new law.

Texas has sued a Dallas doctor over accusations of providing gender-affirming care for transgender youths, bringing to court one of the first times a state has sought to enforce bans driven by Republi

Republican Ken Paxton sued the Dallas physician for allegedly violating a 2023 state ban on transgender care for minors.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit against a North Texas doctor Thursday, claiming that she illegally provided gender transition care to “at least” 21 minors. According to Paxton‘s office,

In a complaint filed in the District Court of Collin County, Texas, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed May Lau, a pediatrician at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, prescribed testosterone to at least 21 minor patients seeking to transition from female to male.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Thursday sued a doctor in Dallas, accusing her of providing gender-affirming care to nearly two dozen minors in violation of the state’s law. Paxton accuses May Chi Lau of “blatantly violating Texas law” by providing hormone-replacement therapy to 21 minors in the period between last October and