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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton like that lawsuit against second doctor for allegedly violating state law and providing gender-affirming medical care to minors.

Dr. Hector Granados is a pediatric endocrinologist from El Paso. Paxton’s lawsuit accuses her of prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to more than 20 minors to treat gender dysphoria, or the distress one might feel when their gender identity does not match their physical appearance.

In 2023, Texas passed Senate Bill 14, which prohibits medical providers from prescribing certain gender-affirming treatments, including puberty blockers and hormones, to minors to assist with medical transition.

Paxton earlier this month filed a similar lawsuit D., an adolescent medicine physician and associate professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. against May Lau. The lawsuits say these doctors are “radical gender activists” who broke the law. Both cases seek financial penalties as well as revocation of doctors’ medical licenses.

“Granados’ practices, publications, and presentations reveal his firm commitment to a gender ideology that desires to medically change the biological sex of children or confirm the belief that a child’s gender identity is inconsistent with his or her biological sex,” Paxton wrote in the lawsuit filed Tuesday. .

Granados did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The lawsuit alleges Granados violated SB 14, but also says he committed fraud by continuing to provide patients with puberty blockers for gender transition and claiming in medical records that the treatment was necessary for early puberty or the early onset of sexual development.

The minors Granados is accused of treating range in age from 12 to 17, with the majority being 15 or older.

In August 2015, Granados helped open El Paso’s first clinic treating transgender children and teens through Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. At the time, the clinic was praised for filling a needed gap in the area.

“There is a huge need to care for transgender youth, with very few doctors or very few people trained in this area,” Granados said. Texas Tech student newspaper of the time. “It was very important for me to open this and we saw great results.”

Granados is now in private practice According to their website. He served as an assistant professor at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso school of medicine until 2019. The university did not respond to a request for comment.

While Granados practiced in El Paso County, the lawsuit was filed in Kaufman County, southeast of Dallas, where one of the 21 patients named in the lawsuit lives.

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