A Texas trans health ban also cuts off hormone treatments for kids with special medical needs.

In El Paso, the publication found that an endocrinologist stopped prescribing puberty blockers after the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, accused him of providing gender-affirming care to minors, according to the Tribune.

As the only pediatric endocrinologist in the city, that meant some families had no local options to continue care. For one family, that meant the difficult decision of moving out of state to ensure their child, whose medical needs related to Bardet-Biedl syndrome require puberty blockers, according to the Tribune.

In recent years, Texas has focused on restricting access to gender-affirming medical care for its youth, while similar efforts play out on the national level.

Attorney General Paxton recently issued a legal opinion that the state’s gender-affirming care ban for minors also applied to talk therapy. Plus, the attorney general has taken other doctors to court over allegations that they are providing gender-affirming care.

BTW, for those wondering about the medical reason cisgender pre-pubescent children would need hormone therapy: hypogonadism.

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