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Lawfare cuts both ways, just like gender surgery. The New York Times ran an encouraging story yesterday headlined, “Texas Attorney General Sues Doctor Over Treatment for Transgender Minors.”




A new 2023 Texas law recently upheld as constitutional by the state’s Supreme Court makes it illegal for healthcare providers to “affirm the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex.”

In other words, Texas doctors aren’t allowed to make confused kids even more confused.

Under Texas’s new 2023 law, the state can revoke doctors’ medical licenses if they prescribe puberty blockers and hormone therapies to children as transsexual aids. On top of that, the law allows doctors to be sued personally for damages. I heard a rumor that the law almost included a provision requiring noncompliant doctors to receive all the banned treatments they prescribed.

This week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the first doctor under the 2023 law. The lawsuit alleged that Dr. May Lau, a pediatrics professor at UT’s Southwestern Medical Center, has treated 21 kids with hormone blockers since the law passed and even worse, she “falsified medical records, prescriptions and billing records to represent that her testosterone prescriptions were for something other than transitioning a child’s biological sex or affirming a child’s belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex.”

So Dr. Lau is — allegedly — a forgerer, liar, fraudster, and a danger to children. I’m not exaggerating. The lawsuit described the so-called doctor as “a scofflaw who is putting the health and safety of minors at risk.” Neither Dr. Lau nor Southwestern Medical Center answered calls for comment. In other words, the Times gave her a chance to deny it, but she clammed up. Probably under the advice of counsel.

Perhaps AG Paxton should consider adding claims for criminal insurance fraud, since one suspects that bleeding-hearted Dr. Lau and the oh-so-charitable Southwest Medical Center were not working for free. In fact, one suspects their gender-bending operation was on the lucrative side.

Paxton’s complaint asks for an order compelling Dr. Lau to stop breaking the law under threat of jail, and a money judgment of $10,000 per violation ($210,000).

It’s worth reflecting on the irony that all the people currently howling in outrage, such as the ACLU, are the very same people who, about ten minutes ago, also howled in rage demanding cancellation of doctors prescribing harmless ivermectin for covid infections.

There’s an ocean of difference between the two cases. Mainly, that no democratically-elected legislature anywhere ever voted to outlaw ivermectin. Ivermectin was never banned by law, not even for covid treatment.

In fact, the only authority anti-ivermectin state medical boards could rely on was a single horsey tweet by the jackasses at the FDA — a tweet the Fifth Circuit later ruled was illegal medical advice the FDA wasn’t allowed to give in the first place.

In other words, so-called liberals are all-in for de-credentialing doctors who provide legal services to willing patients, but then decry lawsuits against doctors who willfully break the law and then cover up the evidence.

In even more good news, the Times reported that over half the states (26) now have total or partial bans on medical gender-bending for children. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Tennessee’s ban this upcoming term.

I realize everyone has their favorites, and believe me, I am not counting any chickens, but … how about Ken Paxton for U.S. Attorney General?

💉💉 In an astonishing development, the New York Times was the only corporate media platform to run this story. I’m starting to think someone high up at the Times is questioning the trans agenda. The Times’ article was headlined, “U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says.” ...

In 2015, hyphenated-doctor Johanna Olson-Kennedy received a broad, multimillion-dollar grant to research the beneficial effects of castration drugs on children’s emotions. She launched a nine-year study of 411 kids who received so-called “puberty blockers,” which permanently prevent their secondary sexual characteristics from developing, and which trans advocates claim make kids with gender dysphoria happy.

Johanna expected to confirm that hypothesis. She is a trans activist and has often been an expert science witness in high-profile trans cases. But the results of Johanna’s study unexpectedly went the other way. ...

But ever since that first introductory paper, as the years have gone by, Johanna’s team has never again published their findings. When the Times asked her why not, Johanna explained, “I do not want our work to be weaponized.” She expanded on that, adding she was worried her study’s results could be used in court to argue that “we shouldn’t use blockers because it doesn’t impact” transgender adolescents.

In other words, no matter how hard they tried, they cannot find any improvement in the study’s heavily drugged kids.

Harry Potter author and women’s rights activist J.K. Rowling made the obvious sarcastic point:

J.K. Rowling • @jk rowling • Oct 23
'We must not publish a study that says we're harming children because
people who say we're harming children will use the study as evidence that
we're harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue
harming children.'

Quibblers will argue Rowling got it wrong, since what we know about Johanna’s unpublished study suggests the kids came out even-Steven. But Rowling is right, since that metric only counted mental health. It didn’t account for all the other problems transitioning kids face.

For just one example of many, boys given puberty blockers face permanent shrinkage, since their package remains forever child-sized. They are usually left with what the doctors call, and I am not making this up, a “micro penis.” Those are two words that should never go together. Obviously, boys who de-transition will not enjoy living with a micro penis. It’s not good for their kidneys, either.

But that’s not even the stupidest part. Fake vaginas are made by hollowing out and “inverting” (don’t ask) the male member. But if the member is micro-sized, doctors can’t make a fake vagina out of it. It’s not deep enough. There’s not enough skin there to do anything useful. So giving boys puberty blockers ensures a bad result from their “gender-affirming surgery.”

You will have to explain how any of that makes sense to trans advocates, because I cannot. I think it must have something to do with a related condition called, “micro brain.”

That being said, there’s a second ugly facet to this tarnished story. What does this self-censorship say about our credentialed class? What does it say about the whole academic publication racket that withholding politically inconvenient results is considered business as usual? How many scientific studies are never published because of politics?