Texas AG sues second doctor accused of providing transgender care to minors
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued an El Paso doctor on Tuesday, accusing him of providing transition-related medical care to nearly two dozen minors in violation of state law.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued an El Paso doctor on Tuesday, accusing him of providing transition-related medical care to nearly two dozen minors in violation of state law.
Paxton alleged that Dr. Hector M. Granados, a pediatric endocrinologist, provided puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy to 21 minors from April 2023 to August for the purpose of transitioning genders. Texas enacted a law, Senate Bill 14, last year banning gender-affirming care for anyone under 18.
“Texas is cracking down on doctors illegally prescribing dangerous ‘gender transition’ drugs to children,” Paxton said in a statement Wednesday. “State law forbids prescribing these interventions to minors because they have irreversible and damaging effects. Any physician found doing so will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
In the statement, Paxton also accused Granados of intentionally “falsifying medical records, prescriptions, and billing records” to evade the law.
Granados, who did not immediately return a request for comment, is the second doctor Paxton has sued for allegedly violating state law.
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