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Texas Legal professional Basic Ken Paxton is suing a second physician for allegedly violating state regulation and offering gender-affirming medical care to minors.
Dr. Hector Granados is an El Paso pediatric endocrinologist. Paxton accuses him within the lawsuit of prescribing puberty blockers and hormone remedy to greater than 20 minors to deal with gender dysphoria, or the misery somebody can really feel when their gender id doesn’t match their bodily look.
In 2023, Texas handed Senate Invoice 14, which prohibited medical suppliers from prescribing sure gender-affirming therapies, together with puberty blockers and hormones, to minors to help them to medically transition.
Earlier this month, Paxton filed an identical lawsuit in opposition to Dr. Could Lau, an adolescent drugs doctor and affiliate professor on the College of Texas Southwestern Medical Middle in Dallas. The lawsuits say these medical doctors are “radical gender activists” who’re circumventing the regulation. Each fits search monetary penalties in addition to the revocation of the medical doctors’ medical licenses.
“Granados’s practices, publications, and presentations reveal an entrenched commitment to a gender ideology that desires to medically transition the biological sex of children or affirm the belief that a child’s gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex,” Paxton wrote within the lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Granados didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The lawsuit alleges Granados violated SB 14, but in addition says he engaged in fraud by persevering with to offer sufferers with puberty blockers for gender transition whereas claiming in medical data that the remedy is critical for precocious puberty, or the early onset of sexual growth.
The minors Granados is accused of treating are between the ages of 12 and 17, with the bulk 15 or older.
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In August 2015, Granados helped open El Paso’s first clinic treating transgender youngsters and teenagers by means of Texas Tech College Well being Sciences Middle. On the time, the clinic was lauded as filling a crucial hole within the area.
“There’s a huge need for the care of trans youths, there’s very little physicians or few who have been trained to do so,” Granados advised the Texas Tech pupil newspaper on the time. “It was very important for me to open this and we’ve seen great results.”
Granados now works in personal apply, based on his web site. He was an assistant professor on the Texas Tech College Well being Sciences Middle El Paso medical faculty till 2019. The college didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Whereas Granados practices in El Paso County, the lawsuit was filed in Kaufman County, southeast of Dallas, the place one of many 21 sufferers listed within the lawsuit lives.
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