Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, known for his anti-LGBTQ+ views, has sued a doctor in the state for providing gender-affirming care to young people, the first such suit in the nation.Paxton filed the suit Thursday in Collin County District Court against May C. Lau, MD, who works at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He alleges that Lau violated Texass law against gender-affirming care to transgender minors by providing cross-sex hormones to at least 21 young people for the purpose of gender transition. He also claims she violated the states business and commercial code by engaging in false, misleading, and deceptive acts and practices to mislead pharmacies, insurance providers, and/or patients by falsifying medical records, prescriptions, and billing records to represent that her testosterone prescriptions are for something other than transitioning a childs biological sex or affirming a childs belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their biological sex, as the suit puts it.Growing scientific evidence strongly suggests that gender transition interventions prescribed to or performed on children in an attempt to anatomically or hormonally alter their biological sex characteristics have damaging, long-term consequences, says a press release from Paxtons office. Additionally, the prohibited treatments are experimental, and no scientific evidence supports their supposed benefits.This is not true. Such treatments are not considered experimental, and they have been shown to have positive and even lifesaving effects on youth people. This care is supported by every major medical group in the U.S.Texas passed a law to protect children from these dangerous unscientific medical interventions that have irreversible and damaging effects, Paxton said in the release. Doctors who continue to provide these harmful gender transition drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.Story developing