"A Radical Gender Activist"—Texas Sues Pediatrician, Alleging Violations of Ban On Pediatric Gender-Transition Treatment

Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed suit against UT Southwestern pediatrician Dr. May C. Lau, alleging she violated state law by prescribing at least 21 natal female girls testosterone.

The Texas attorney general has come out swinging against a Dallas pediatrician, alleging in a lawsuit that the physician violated the state’s ban on prescribing pediatric gender-transition drugs to minors.

Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has a long history of aggressive tactics in policing pediatric gender medicine, on Thursday filed suit in the District Court of Collin County, Texas, against UT Southwestern Medical Center pediatrician Dr. May C. Lau.

The suit seeks over $1 million in civil penalties, attorney’s fees, litigation expenses, restitution and costs. It alleges that Dr. Lau prescribed testosterone to at least 21 natal female minors as young as 14 years old after the state’s ban of pediatric gender-transition treatment went into effect in September 2023, or that they filled the prescriptions that she had written after that date.

The suit also alleges that Dr. Lau deceptively prescribed a puberty blocker injection to a minor by entering a billing code of an “endocrine disorde…