A prominent Texas pediatrician surrendered her state medical license last week amid allegations she performed illegal “transgender” medical interventions on minors.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Dr. May Lau, then Medical Director of the Adolescent and Young Adult clinic at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, last October for violating state law prohibiting the performance of transgender surgical and hormone procedures on patients under 18 years old.
Dr. Lau voluntarily gave up her Texas medical license on October 23 — but continues to deny any wrongdoing.
“Dr. Lau decided to move her medical practice to Oregon and saw no reason to continue to maintain her Texas license,” her attorney told The Texas Tribune. “Dr. Lau continues to deny the Texas Attorney General’s politically- and ideologically-driven allegations.”
Attorney General Paxton celebrated Dr. Lau’s departure from the state and vowed to continue the case against her: “May Lau has done untold damage to children, both physically and psychologically, and the surrendering of her Texas medical license is a major victory for our state. [But] my case against her for breaking the law will continue, and we will not relent in holding anyone who tries to ‘transition’ kids accountable.”
SB 14 prohibits doctors from performing transgender medical interventions on minors. The law took effect in September 2023 and remained effective throughout its successful appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, which upheld it in June 2024.
Three months later, Attorney General Paxton sued Dr. Lau for violating SB 14 at least 22 times.
The filing presents evidence showing Lau illegally prescribed testosterone to at least 21 healthy female patients following the implementation of SB 14, either by writing a script after the law went into effect or by prescribing the patients an improper number of hormone refills past the law’s effective date.
Lau falsely identified several of these female patients as males.
In another case, Lau allegedly diagnosed a young man with a non-existent endocrine disorder to ensure his insurance would pay for opposite-sex hormones.
The Texas Attorney General’s office believes this patient took estrogen for gender confusion, not hormone dysfunction. He later sought treatment from QMed, formerly QueerMed — an organization dedicated to dispensing opposite-sex hormones to people confused about their sexual identity, including minors.
Though Lau continued billing this patient for “endocrine disorder” treatments, other doctors at Children’s Medical Center Dallas billed him for “gender dysphoria” treatments.
The lawsuit uses Lau’s medical background, in conjunction with her alleged bad practice, to paint a picture of a doctor financially and professionally intertwined with radical gender ideology.
Lau claimed to specialize in “adolescent female and male sexual and reproductive health, along with treating youth with gender dysphoria” while heading up the Adolescent and Young Adult clinic at Children’s Medical Center Dallas.
She boasted associations with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine and Gender Education and Care Interdisciplinary Support, a now-defunct organization reportedly dedicated to performing transgender medical interventions.
She routinely co-authored research with members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, a radical activist group made up of members who benefit financially and ideologically from performing transgender surgical and hormone interventions.
The filing estimates 20% of Lau’s published work relates to gender “transitioning.”
Perhaps the most damning piece of background information cited in the filing is a YouTube seminar Lau gave in January 2020 — nearly five years before her alleged misconduct.
In the presentation, titled “Transgender Care of Adolescents and Adults,” Lau admitted:
- She changes her patient’s records to reflect their subjective “gender identity,” rather than their biological sex.
- She had at least witnessed, if not performed, transgender surgeries on minors before they started opposite-sex hormone treatments.
- Adolescent patients experiencing sexual identity confusion often change their name, sex and preferred pronouns from visit to visit.
- Transgender hormone interventions can cause permanent side effects, including sexual dysfunction.
- Scientists have not studied the long-term effects and safety of using “puberty blockers” — medications used off label to block the normal production of estrogen and testosterone — on healthy children.
Lau’s statements in the seminar show she knew transgender hormone and surgical interventions were experimental, and that performing them on gender confused adolescents could cause permanent, life-long consequences for people who often change their “identity” later in life.
She chose to perform these unproven, dangerous procedures on teenagers anyway.
Texas is right to pursue legal action against Dr. Lau and others that facilitate and profit from the mutilation of children.
All states, regardless of their political leanings, should adopt policies like SB 14 in recognition of the science, which proves transgender medical interventions do not help children.
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