1 week Ago By Sean Nolan | Southwestern Law School, US
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Thursday against a physician for providing gender transition care to 21 minor patients, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting gender transition medical interventions. The lawsuit accuses Dr. May Lau of engaging in “deceptive trade practices, including misleading pharmacies, insurance providers, and/or patients by falsifying medical records, prescriptions, and billing records to represent that testosterone prescriptions are for something other than [transitioning or affirming a child’s biological sex or gender identity.
]” The suit claims that Lau is a “radical gender activist” citing her expertise in adolescent sexual reproductive health and advocacy for gender-affirming care in multiple medical journals in addition to her work with gender-affirming care clinics that shuttered with the passage of SB 14. The action is the first instance in which the newly enacted law has been enforced, American Civil Liberties Union LGBTQ & HIV Project staff attorney Hubert Seldin. in June 2023, Texas restricts a physician from performing gender transitioning treatments under threat of civil penalties or loss of medical license.
The bill was challenged shortly thereafter and by the Texas Supreme Court, reasoning that the interest in protecting the health and safety of minors outweighed the parental right to make medical decisions for their children. A released from Paxton’s office accompanying the lawsuit called gender transition treatments “experimental,” claiming that “no scientific evidence” supported their efficacy. On the other hand, several medical associations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics the use of gender-affirming care for minors, citing scientific studies that minors receiving the care have demonstrated better mental health with reduced rates of suicide and depression.
Bans or restrictions on gender-affirming or transitioning care are now effective in , with six states making the furnishing of said care a felony crime. Nuremberg war crimes trials began On October 18, 1945, the of Nazi war criminals began.Read US prosecutor Robert H.
Jackson's . Women declared "Persons" in Canada On October 18, 1929, The Privy Council of the United Kingdom declared that women were considered "persons" under the laws of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada had held in that women were not considered "persons" under Canada's governing law, the .
The Privy Council overturned this ruling, declaring "that the exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word 'persons' should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?".
