Lone Star Scandal: Texas Attorney General Seeks Justice
- Levi Mikula
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
Dr. Brett Cooper, a Dallas, Texas pediatrician, surrendered his medical license in October 2025 amid the ongoing battle with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. In the fall of 2024, Paxton filed lawsuits against three doctors (May Lau, M. Brett Cooper, and Hector Granados) for allegedly violating SB 14, which took effect in September 2023 and aims to prevent doctors from performing or prescribing gender-transition treatment for minors, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers. Cooper allegedly prescribed testosterone to at least 15 minors who wanted to transition, despite it being banned under SB 14. The lawsuit also alleged that Cooper falsified medical records, prescriptions, and billing records in an attempt to “intentionally conceal the unlawful conduct,” Fox 4 reported.
Source: Texas Attorney General Paxton
Paxton’s office is now accusing Cooper of violating the Rule 11 Agreement, which restricts Dr. Cooper from practicing medicine on patients during the proceedings. In October, Cooper’s attorneys alleged that Paxton’s office “issued two misleading press releases, insinuating that evidence showed Dr. Cooper had ‘knowingly’ and ‘illegally’ prescribed hormones for the purposes of gender transition,” attorneys said in the filing. “If the State continues to make unrestrained, misleading, and defamatory statements to the public, it will prevent Dr. Cooper from obtaining a fair and impartial jury.” Cooper’s case is expected to go to trial in May 2026.
Photo: Texas Medical Association (TMA)
The problem isn’t just with Dr. Cooper and goes much deeper. When Cooper was on TMA’s Board of Trustees in 2022, he proposed a policy to prevent non-physicians, hospitals, and health systems from interfering in the “practice of evidence-based medicine.” That same year, the Texas Medical Association implemented a similar policy. Despite internal calls for reforms and concerns about Dr. Cooper over the last several years, the Texas Medical Association has silenced debate and refuses to even look at the “evidence-based” medical practices in question. Studies show that interventions like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are harmful to children and can cause a variety of health issues, such as infertility, cardiovascular complications, and bone-density complications, just to name a few.
Texas State Rep. Steve Toth told Blaze Media in November that one of the biggest failings of SB 14 is that it only bans chemical and surgical transitioning but does nothing to ban social transitioning. Toth alleges that the Texas Medical Association is continuing to teach doctors that you can continue to put children on puberty blockers as long as you claim that it’s not meant to “transition” the child; it’s just for “precocious puberty.” Toth also noted that after the child goes through puberty, cross-sex hormones are readily available and can be easily ordered from other states. At the time of the article, the Texas Medical Association was still offering a course called “Providing Evidence-Based Transgender Care,” which was listed for $199 and meant for both adults and adolescents, although that course appears to have now been removed.
When we reached out to the Texas Medical Association for comment, pretending to be the parent of a transgender child, they confirmed that SB 14 “does not prohibit puberty suppressants or medically necessary procedures for the treatment of premature puberty, and it does not prohibit treatments to children who were born with a genetic disorder of sex development or to children who do not have male or female sex chromosome structures as determined through genetic testing,” before telling us that if we had any further questions, we should contact a pediatrician for guidance. While SB 14 took major steps to protect Texas children, much more needs to be done, and serious reforms are needed to ensure that organizations like the Texas Medical Association are protecting children.
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