Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing a second doctor of violating a state law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

The lawsuit, filed in a Texas district court, accuses Hector M. Granados, an El Paso physician, of prescribing and distributing puberty blockers and hormones to patients as young as 12 to treat gender dysphoria, or the severe emotional distress that stems from a mismatch between a person’s gender identity and sex assigned at birth.

Texas’s Senate Bill 14, signed into law last year by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, forbids doctors from administering medical interventions to “transition a child’s biological sex” or affirm a child’s belief that their gender identity is inconsistent with their sex. Texas’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s........

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