Texas AG Ken Paxton files lawsuit against El Paso pediatrician for illegally prescribing gender transition drugs and therapies to minors

11/06/2024 / By Laura Harris

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a pediatric endocrinologist in El Paso for illegally prescribing gender transition drugs and therapies to minors.

In September 2023, Texas banned all types of transgender medical interventions for minors, including surgeries, hormone replacement therapies and the use of puberty blockers under Senate Bill 14.

A group of parents filed a lawsuit against SB 14, so a lower court briefly blocked it. But the Texas Supreme Court upheld the law in June and allowed its implementation in August. (Related: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues doctor for illegally prescribing transgender drugs to 21 minors.)

In his lawsuit, Paxton claimed that Dr. Hector M. Granados, a pediatric endocrinologist who has at least two clinics in El Paso – one in the eastern Tierra Humida neighborhood and another in the southeastern Pecan Drive neighborhood – knowingly continued these treatments even after the Texas Supreme Court passed its ruling upholding SB 14. The Texas AG filed a lawsuit against Granados in October, accusing him of violating Texas law.

According to the lawsuit, Granados administered puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to facilitate gender transition in children, with some of them as young as twelve years old. The lawsuit also accuses Granados of engaging in deceptive practices to conceal his alleged actions, including falsifying medical records, prescriptions and billing information to disguise the nature of the treatments provided.

“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,” Paxton said. “Any physician found doing so 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 has also filed a lawsuit against a Dallas-area doctor for violating SB 14

Granados is not the only physician facing legal challenges filed by Paxton.

A few days earlier, Paxton also filed a lawsuit against Dr. May Ci Lau, a medical director of the adolescent and young adult clinic at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, for allegedly providing illegal transgender medical treatments to 21 minors. Paxton accused Lau of violating SB 14 by prescribing sex-change hormones to minors under false diagnoses and billing codes.

“Evidence obtained by the Office of the Attorney General revealed that a Dallas-area doctor illegally provided high-dose cross-sex hormones to twenty-one minor patients for the direct purpose of “transitioning” the child’s biological sex,” Paxton said in a press release. “The doctor allegedly used false diagnoses and billing codes to mask these unlawful prescriptions.”

Lau has co-authored several academic papers on gender dysphoria in children and the transition from pediatric to adult care for transgender youth. These academic papers include “Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care for Transgender Youth: A Qualitative Study of Patient, Parent and Provider Perspectives” and “Developing a Curriculum on Transgender Health Care for Physician Assistant Students.”

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