Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has filed a lawsuit against an El Paso doctor who allegedly provided dangerous and irreversible transgender drugs and treatments to minors, which is a violation of state law.
Paxton has accused pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Hector M. Granados of violating a 2023 Texas law barring the prescription of puberty blockers and other “transitioning” drugs and therapies for minors.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office has argued that Granados knowingly violated the law by continuing to provide transgender drugs and treatments to minors, while at the same time falsifying medical records to hide his crimes.
In a statement announcing the lawsuit, Paxton declared: “Texas is cracking down on doctors illegally prescribing dangerous ‘gender transition’ drugs to children. State law forbids prescribing these interventions to minors because they have irreversible and damaging effects.”
He went on to point out that any physician found to be prescribing these dangerous and irreversible drugs or treatments “will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
“Medical providers who violate SB 14 are liable for penalties, and the law also directs that the Texas Medical Board ‘shall revoke the medical license or other authorization to practice medicine of a physician who violates’ the statute,” Paxton added.
🚨 NEW: I have sued an El Paso doctor for illegally providing “gender transition” treatments to Texas children. In some cases, the patients were as young as twelve. I am cracking down on doctors illegally prescribing dangerous ‘gender transition’ drugs to children. State law… https://t.co/QFczRQ7a1T
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 30, 2024
Democrats desperately challenged the law after it was signed, leading a state judge to initially block the law from taking effect. However, upon appeal, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state in an 8-1 ruling in late August, rejecting arguments from parents claiming that the law violated their right to decide whether to seek medical treatment for their children. This ruling lifted the lower court’s injunction and allowed the law to take effect.
In their decision, the Texas Supreme Court confirmed that state lawmakers had “made a permissible, rational policy choice.”
“We conclude the Legislature made a permissible, rational policy choice to limit the types of available medical procedures for children, particularly in light of the relative nascency of both gender dysphoria and its various modes of treatment and the Legislature’s express constitutional authority to regulate the practice of medicine” the ruling read, in part.
