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Texas AG sues doctor who allegedly provided transgender care to 21 minors (www.nbcnews.com)

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The suit is the first by an attorney general against an individual doctor for allegedly violating a restriction on gender-affirming care for minors.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a Dallas doctor Thursday accusing her of providing transition-related care to nearly two dozen minors in violation of state law.

Paxton alleged that Dr. May Chi Lau, who specializes in adolescent medicine, provided hormone replacement therapy to 21 minors between October 2023 and August for the purpose of transitioning genders. In 2023, Texas enacted a law, Senate Bill 14, banning hormone replacement therapy and other forms of gender-affirming care for minors.

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[-] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 153 points 2 months ago

To add to the pile of evidence that this is all just hateful bigotry and has nothing to do with children's safety, cisgender children can still legally access these drugs, but not for the purpose of transitioning genders. The same drugs can still be used to delay aggressive puberty, which is a standard and relatively common usage, as well as other conditions that might affect a cisgender child. But a trans child who needs the same drugs for a different reason, will be told too bad, you're out of luck. So two children could walk into the same doctor's office and one will be turned away and forced to suffer through their gender dysphoria, with permanent repercussions for their mental health and body, and the other child will be treated with the drugs they need to be treated with. It's absurdly unfair, unequal, and purposefully harmful to a vulnerable population.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 8 points 2 months ago

Tbf there are all kinds of medicine that are ok for one thing but not another, cocaine for instance.

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 89 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Cocaine is ok if you're trying to get an edge on the competition as a stock trader. But, not ok if you're black.

[-] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 44 points 2 months ago

The difference being, in this case, that this type of hormone treatment is a medically responsible and widely accepted treatment for both things.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 8 points 2 months ago

I don’t disagree with you at all.

It wasn’t me arguing against the post, just thinking out loud basically.

I like the philosophy aspect of finding where the line is.

I do it with like everything.

Figure this one out, usually people find things that are fluffier less edible, but a squirrel and a rat are essentially the same animal but people will totally eat squirrel, but I don’t ever hear of people commonly eating rat even when other food is available.

The fluffiness actually works against it.

A pigeon and a dove are the same damn thing only differently colored.

Most people wouldn’t eat a pigeon, but they would eat a dove or a squab

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago

The problem is that you're not the one deciding what drug to prescribe. The government is.

And even if you were, shouldn't the decision on "where to draw the line" be made by the parent, the child, and their doctor?

We can have all the philosophical conversations you want but we have people who are being affected by this right now.

[-] prole 8 points 2 months ago

We can have all the philosophical conversations you want but we have people who are being affected by this right now.

Yeah, this is why I downvoted the original "cocaine" comment.

Even if it was "thinking out loud," it's just an absurd thing to say when we are talking about children's lives here.

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[-] Kayday@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

The fluffiness of the animal is kind of irrelevant? Rats and pigeons are generally perceived as potential disease carriers, regardless if they are more likely than squirrels or doves to carry.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

HRT and puberty blockers are preventative medicine. Specifically, they prevent that incurable disease known as suicide.

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[-] RedSeries@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Are you implying that it's okay for cisgender folks to get HRT and gender-affirming care, but it's not okay if for transgender folks to seek the same care? Explain to me how your assertion here applies to what we're talking about.

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[-] prole 10 points 2 months ago

Really? That's gonna be the argument you go with?

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[-] sue_me_please@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

Doctors aren't prescribing cocaine for the hell of it, though. Same thing with puberty blockers. Think we can trust doctors' judgment when it comes to the drugs they prescribe.

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[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 84 points 2 months ago

Ken Paxton is a blight on humanity.

[-] Gorram_Reavers@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

Who will rid me of this troublesome AG

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Time, eventually

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

We don't have too much of that left.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

we can't buy more time
’cause time won't accept our money

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That's cold comfort for his current victims.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I hope you aren't insinuating Ken Paxton is human. He's hardly even organic.

[-] prole 3 points 2 months ago

It's important to remember that these people are also human.

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[-] confluence@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago

As doctors continue to flee the state

[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 28 points 2 months ago

My doctor closed her practice in the state. She's the kindest doctor I've ever had the pleasure of dealing with, and I'm sad that I have to find a new one.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 43 points 2 months ago

Fuck Ken Paxton. I hope he gets trapped in quicksand inhabited by starving sand fleas.

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Or maybe strapped to a tree in a forest full of hungry grizzly bears

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

Yes, although that would arguably be too quick 🤔

[-] BobbyGasoline@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or maybe strapped to a tree in a forest full of ~~hungry~~ horny grizzly bears. Is that better?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

How about covered with honey and tied down on top of a nest of fire ants?

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[-] prole 4 points 2 months ago

Quick sand is a far too awesome way to go for someone like this.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

This doc is a hero!

Also, wouldn’t it be cool to send a message to Paxton, and send a few fed lawyers to be her defense…. ? (Biden… I’m looking at you.)

[-] Joker@lemmy.zip 38 points 2 months ago

I met this dude a few years ago and he is straight up nuts. It wasn't like a brief thing. I spent hours with him. He's as much of a douche bag as he seems like. I remember him bragging about all the lawsuits he filed against the Biden administration - something like 80+ - and ranting about the stolen election. It amazes me that he holds elected office. He's a twat.

[-] Kit 5 points 2 months ago

The doctor or the attorney general?

[-] Joker@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago

The AG. I didn't think there would be any confusion as to who I was referring to. LOL

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The elected doctor. /s

Jk, I had a hard time pinpointing the target of speech as well, the final comment about holding elected office was the only indicator I found. Most people are really poor communicators/writers, eh?

[-] Silentiea 6 points 2 months ago

I mean also all the lawsuits he filed against the Biden administration makes it seem more likely it's the conservative ag and not the liberal doctor...

[-] Joker@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Paxton gets mentioned on almost a weekly basis and it's always something scummy that he's done. I assumed he was the only douche bag in this story. Then there's the lawsuits against the Biden administration, complaints about a stolen election, and the part about being elected. I figured that was enough context to indicate who I was talking about. Maybe the doctor is a douche bag too, but I didn't meet him so I don't know.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Reminder that Texas has been Republican controlled for 28 years.

They've been voting for this reality for decades. People should move away from Texas.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Reminder that Texas's legislature and Congressiinal delegations were majority Democrat for 150 years, and it wasn't until the boost from W's Presidential election that they got their first majority.

They then gerrymandered the shit out of the state out of cycle (it has been redistricted in response to the 2000 census the previous session) to flip it from majority-democrat to a 2/3rds Republican delegation to the House in a single election cycle.

Texas isn't nearly as red as people think. They got a slim majority in 2000 and 2002 and then rigged the game with gerrymandering and voter suppression.

[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Ken Paxton is a ghoul

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

America, home of the free.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 17 points 2 months ago

and 'dont tread on me' texas of all places

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

It's more like this:

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Some people are more like this in texas

[-] card797@champserver.net 15 points 2 months ago

Is this the worst Republican in the bunch? Could be.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Politician, perhaps. But I'm going to have to put a spotlight on Jonathan Mitchell, who came up with the structure behind the Texas Heartbeat Bill, which did an end run around judicial review by allowing enforcement via civil action by damn near anyone. The usual way to legally dispute a potentially unconstitutional law is to sue the government officials that enforce it, but because there wasn't a specific person there was no real way to bring it to the judicial branch.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

We should punish the people hurting our children, like this jackass attorney general preventing them from getting treatment for Gender Dysphoria.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 14 points 2 months ago

Allegedly this doctor is a hero

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Why does he look like that alien from Men In Black that's basically just a giant space roach wearing a human's skin?

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Ken "Edgar" Paxton

[-] kevin@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

If he wanted to find a criminal, just look in the mirror.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Misread the title as implying people under 21 are minors in Texas.

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