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

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        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

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

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      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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      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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          Doctors aren’t prescribing, nor are they they source of, illicit fentanyl. The ease of synthesis means that clandestine labs can make a shit ton of the stuff, it’s that simple.

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            Doctors legally prescribing fentanyl is what created the crisis. HHS estimates there are about 6.5m prescriptions per year in the 2010s

            That aside: corruption via pharmaceutical sales influence is a well known problem anyway. Medical doctors are not unbiased paragons of virtue

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              Look at the stats, fentanyl has always been rarely prescribed and even more rarely prescribed compared to other opioids. The fentanyl crisis is a crisis of economics: there is less profit to be made in creating, smuggling and selling other opioids compared to fentanyl.

              If you want to be accurate, doctors prescribed non-fentanyl opioids in situations where they weren’t needed, often illegally, when those prescriptions ran out, that caused a heroin crisis. That heroin crisis became a fentanyl crisis when drug dealers stopped selling heroin in favor of the cheaper and much stronger fentanyl.

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        If I actually wanted I could have just deleted it and not have to deal with this, I don’t have a horse in this race.

        There will be side effects from everything, who am I to judge how medications should be used.

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      Except we don’t have any widespread evidence for cocaine being taken outside of highly specific medicinal cases being helpful to the health and wellbeing of the individual.

      When it comes to gender affirming care, we have substantial evidence that proves it is safe and effective, as even a cursory glance at medical research on the topic will show:

      https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(23)00118-7/fulltext

      https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/09540261.2015.1115753

      https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/article-abstract/2789423

      https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/trgh.2015.0008