Texas AG launches probe into potential "illegal" trans procedures on kids

An investigation into Austin-based Dell Children's Medical Center was announced by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday after video evidence showed staff there saying they had children as young as 8-years-old "transitioning," a term used by progressives to destigmatize genital mutilation and chemical castration in some cases. 

AG Paxton issued a Request to Examine (“RTE”) to the Dell Children’s Medical Center, demanding that they turn over information and answer questions about the alleged activities at the hospital in which children could undergo life-altering mutilation.

“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 said in a statement. “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.”

Yeah, but think of their financial gains, just in lifelong doctor visits and drug treatment alone.

“It is deeply disturbing, and there is no place for it in Texas,” Paxton added. “Along these lines, there have been a number of recent reports about potentially illegal activity at Dell Children’s Medical Center, and this investigation aims to uncover the truth.”

The investigation follows the publication of a report by Project Veritas, an investigative group. An undercover video on April 19th apparently shows hospital officials admitting to treating children as young as 8-years-old for what the left calls transgenderism, but in reality is gender confusion or gender dysphoria. They also admit to recommending puberty blockers [chemical castration drugs] for a 10-year-old and cross-sex hormones for kids as young as 14!

“We do have patients who are starting [transition] as young as 8, 9 [years old],” said Nora Scott. She's a licensed social worker at Austin-based Dell Children’s Medical Center, according to Project Veritas. Social workers no longer have the role of protecting kids, it seems.

Dell Children’s Medical Center responded to AG Paxton’s investigation by claiming in-part:

Our organization prohibits surgery and prescribing hormone therapy, including puberty blockers, for the treatment of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents. If any employee or contracted provider acts in a manner that is inconsistent with our organizational position regarding gender dysphoria care of minors, we take appropriate action.

Paxton then responded in kind, posting on Twitter: 

“Dell Children’s responded to my investigation and said they don’t engage in these abusive practices. Their cooperation is welcomed. I look forward to reviewing all requested documents. This is a win for Texas kids, but I won’t back down. As Reagan said, ‘Trust, but Verify.'”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) also blasted the hospital in an interview in April on Newsmax where he said that the undercover video was "horrific" stating, “I think a child that is eight years old, does not have the maturity to make permanent life-altering decisions. We see institutions across the country performing genital mutilation, performing surgeries where they remove perfectly healthy genitals from children, little boys or little girls, making them no longer able to have children for the rest of their lives. That is horrific. I think that’s child abuse.”

Cruz along with Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)  began an investigation into the practices at Dell Children’s Medical Center.

Now comes the coverup.

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