Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation into Texas Children’s Hospital focusing on the hospital’s “gender transitioning” procedures. The move comes weeks after Paxton opened a similar probe into a separate hospital.
“I’ve been clear that any ‘gender transitioning’ procedures that hurt our children constitute child abuse under Texas law,” Paxton said in a statement Friday.
“Recent reports indicate that Texas Children’s Hospital may be unlawfully performing such procedures, and my office it is working to uncover the truth. I am committed to investigating any entity in our state to ensure that our children are protected,” he continued. “Though many unhinged activists compromising the healthcare field think otherwise, children are not to be treated as science experiments. Doctors and hospitals should not be pushing mutilative and irreversible ‘gender transitioning’ procedures that will negatively impact innocent children for the rest of their lives.”
As part of the probe. Paxton’s office has requested several