Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a lawsuit against a physician on Thursday, claiming that the doctor conducted illegal sex change operations on nearly 20 minors.
According to the lawsuit, May Lau, who serves as the medical director at the adolescent and young adult clinic at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, allegedly administered “experimental” transgender medical procedures to at least 21 children, some as young as 14.
“Texas passed a law to protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and damaging effects,” Paxton stated in his announcement. “Doctors who continue to provide these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” In June, the state supreme court reaffirmed Texas’ ban on sex change procedures for minors.
“The debate in Texas on the legality of dangerous and experimental medical procedures seeking to transition or affirm a child’s belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex is over,” the lawsuit asserts.
Lau is described in the lawsuit as a “radical gender activist” who allegedly manipulated medical records, prescriptions, and billing documents to mislead pharmacies and insurance companies, thereby concealing the true nature of the prescriptions for hormone therapy.
In one instance involving a 15-year-old patient, Lau purportedly employed a diagnostic code for an endocrine disorder to charge the insurance provider for a “puberty blocker device.” The lawsuit claims she is using this code to “falsely represent that she’s treating patients for an unspecified endocrine disorder, when in fact she is transitioning their biological sex or affirming their belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex.”
Additionally, a 2020 presentation referenced in the lawsuit shows that Lau and her assistant acknowledged, “we have had youth in our clinic come in who have had top surgery before they have even started hormone treatment.”
