Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, himself indicted, has launched an investigation into a Texas hospital for providing gender-affirming care to minors, something conservatives have decided to attack instead of developing policy positions that might be popular with voters.
Per NBC News, Paxton claims to have received numerous reports that the Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas in Austin has been “unlawfully” providing care to trans minors. “It is now alarmingly common for fringe activists to use their positions in medicine and health care to force experimental, life-altering procedures onto children,” Paxton stated without evidence. “Across the country, there are doctors and health care professionals who appear willing to sacrifice the long-term health of American children, all in service to the increasingly dangerous fad of ‘transgender’ extremism. It is deeply disturbing, and there is no place for it in Texas.”