May Lau prescribed me cross-sex hormones when I was only in middle school. As an endocrinologist, she was supposed to be an expert I could trust as I battled gender dysphoria. Instead, her “care” left me with a mutilated body and a lifetime of regret.
But this month, thanks to an investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Lau finally surrendered her medical license.
Since September 2023, Texas law has protected gender-confused children from experimental “treatments” like the double mastectomy and cross-sex hormones I was given as a child. Despite this law, Lau continued providing cross-sex hormones to at least 21 gender-confused children, according to Attorney General Paxton. Then, to hide her actions, she allegedly used fake billing codes and diagnoses, committing blatant fraud.
This is the same process Lau used to prescribe me cross-sex hormones: she falsely diagnosed with an endocrine disorder, manipulating my medical records, and used a false billing code to hide the nature of the “treatments” she was giving me.
During Attorney General Paxton’s investigation, Lau initially agreed to a Rule 11 arrangement to suspend her medical practice in Texas, and now, she has voluntarily surrendered her license in Texas––a landmark victory for detransitioners.
My parents and I trusted Lau’s professional medical opinion, but all her treatments and procedures gave me was a broken body and deep psychological pain. After only two therapy appointments, Lau told me that testosterone injections and menstrual suppression drugs would save my life. She told my parents that my condition was well understood, that she had a 99% effective cure, and that if I didn’t undergo her recommended treatments, my condition would lead me to commit suicide.
Because of Lau and supposed “experts” like her, I had gone under the knife for a double mastectomy by the time I was 14 years old. My body had already been altered by years of cross-sex hormones, and the medical professionals who were supposed to help me had lied to me for years.
As a result, today I’m left with a permanently lowered voice, mastectomy scars, and a lost childhood. I want to be a mother one day, and I will never be able to breastfeed or feel my future baby against my chest. I will never recover the years I lost to Lau’s medical abuse.
Yet, medical providers—including Lau— are still telling gender-confused children and their parents that the cure for gender dysphoria is surgery and drugs.
Lau has moved her practice to Oregon, according to a Newsweek report, where she’ll undoubtedly continue to mutilate children. But her record is now public: parents of vulnerable gender-confused children will know that her Texas medical license was suspended and then surrendered. They will see her record of being investigated for fraud and medical abuse. And they will know that stories like mine exist.
Unfortunately, under current Texas law, I have no recourse against the harm Lau inflicted upon me. The statute of limitations would have required me to sue Lau by just 16 years old. But at 16, I was still navigating the consequences of my mastectomy and the cross-sex hormones. I was still a child.
Nevertheless, General Paxton’s lawsuit is a sliver of justice for everyone Lau hurt—and a sliver of hope for any gender-confused child in Texas. This is the first step in the fight to safeguard children from gender mutilation, and I hope that a retroactive extension of the statute of limitations will allow me and the others whom Lau hurt to find justice one day.
In the meantime, it’s only right that other states should follow Texas and Attorney General Paxton’s lead by outlawing the “transition” of minors. It’s taken me years to try to reclaim the life that Lau and other supposed medical experts took from me, and my story is only one among many. Prisha Mosley, Soren Aldaco, and Chloe Cole are only a few of those who suffered at the hands of their once trusted medical providers. Stories of the physical and psychological pain detransitioners have suffered are heartbreaking.
It’s too late to undo the harm May Lau caused me, but it’s not too late for other gender-confused children to be protected from medical experimentation. No child should have to experience what Lau put me through, and no parent should be manipulated into watching his or her child suffer.
Texas understands this truth, and as other states like North Carolina extend the statute of limitations to let detransitioners like me seek justice, it’s time for Texas and other states to step up and hold people like May Lau accountable.
