Texas Chief Law Officer Ken Paxton submitted a claim versus an El Paso medical professional today for supposedly offering sex-change hormonal agents to kids in infraction of a state statute.
Paxton revealed the claim versus Hector Granados, a pediatric endocrinologist, Wednesday, arguing Granados is “damaging the health and wellness of Texas kids by offering adolescence blockers and cross-sex hormonal agents to kids.”
Paxton states such actions remain in infraction of a Texas law that forbids “medical suppliers from recommending specific gender-affirming treatments, consisting of adolescence blockers and hormonal agents, to minors to help them to clinically shift,” according to the declaration launched by Paxton’s workplace.
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Under existing state law, physicians are not permitted to supply kids with adolescence blockers or cross-sex hormonal agents or to perform surgical treatment to verify their self-professed gender identity in such a way that is irregular with their biological sex.
” In spite of the enactment of the law, Granados continues to recommend and disperse adolescence blockers and cross-sex hormonal agents to his small clients for the functions of transitioning their biological sex or verifying their belief that their gender identity or sex is irregular with their biological sex,” the filing declares.
The match noted 21 confidential clients Granados has actually supposedly dealt with, numerous of whom were recommended adolescence blockers and others who were supplied hormonal agent treatment such as testosterone.
The match declares Granados has actually composed “illegal prescriptions for drugs as just recently as August 19, 2024, with clients filling those illegal prescriptions as just recently as October 12, 2024.”
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The filing likewise declares Granados has actually “participated in incorrect, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices to deceive drug stores, insurance coverage suppliers, and/or clients” by falsifying medical records, prescriptions and other medical documents.
” Texas is punishing physicians unlawfully recommending unsafe ‘gender shift’ drugs to kids,” Paxton stated in a declaration. “State law prohibits recommending these interventions to minors since they have permanent and destructive results. Any doctor discovered doing so will be prosecuted to the complete level of the law.”
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Paxton is looking for short-lived and irreversible injunctions versus Granados that would obstruct him from continuing to recommend adolescence blockers and testosterone and enforce civil charges of approximately $10,000 per infraction.
Fox News Digital connected to Granados for remark however did not right away hear back.
This is the 2nd match of this nature Paxton has actually released this month. The chief law officer is likewise taking legal action against Dallas medical professional Might Lau, declaring the doctor supplied restricted “gender shift” hormonal agents to over 20 teenagers in infraction of state law
Fox News Digital’s Chris Pandolfo added to this report.
Source: Fox News.