Texas AG Paxton Probes “Experimental” Trans Treatments for Children
Paxton called the “potentially illegal activity” by the hospital “deeply disturbing”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced a probe into “potentially illegal activity” surrounding the use of so-called “gender-affirming” treatments for children at a children’s hospital.
“It is now alarmingly common for fringe activists to use their positions in medicine and health care to force experimental, life-altering procedures onto children,” he said in a statement. “Across the country, there are doctors and health care professionals who appear willing to sacrifice the long-term health of American children, all in service to the increasingly dangerous fad of ‘transgender’ extremism.”
Paxton’s office issued a Request to Examine Austin-based Dell Children’s Medical Center (DCMC) on May 5, seeking information on the use of puberty blockers in children, when parental consent was or wasn’t obtained, the ages of patients involved, and number of visits children are seen by practitioners at DCMC before being administered the “treatments.”
On April 25, Texas Sen.Ted Cruz and Texas Rep. Chip Roy (both Republicans) issued a letter to DCMC in response to a Project Veritas video seemingly portraying hospital employees as discussing transgender surgeries for children as young as 8.
“We, along with millions of Texans, find it deeply concerning that DCMC is providing experimental, unproven, and dangerous medical procedures to young children. These young Texans are often victimized by social media, societal pressures, and crazed gender ideologies into believing that they are either a boy ‘trapped’ in a girl’s body, or a girl ‘trapped’ in a boy’s body,” the lawmakers wrote.
In response, DCMC issued a statement pointing to hospital policy which “prohibits surgery and prescribing hormone therapy for the treatment of gender dysphoria for children,” vowing a thorough review of the situation.