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Title: Trans health care ban forces cis special needs child to flee state to obtain cri
Post by: Jessica_Rose on March 10, 2026, 02:09:38 PM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on March 10, 2026, 02:09:38 PM
Trans health care ban forces cis special needs child to flee state to obtain critical hormone care
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/trans-health-care-ban-forces-cis-special-needs-child-to-flee-state-to-obtain-critical-hormone-care/
Molly Sprayregen (10 March 2026)
A Texas family's struggle to obtain medical care for their special needs child exemplifies the way anti-trans laws can hurt everybody, not just those who identify as something other than their sex assigned at birth.
Gabrielle Jones-Radtke, who has lived in El Paso her whole life, is now being forced to move to New Mexico so that her seven-year-old daughter, Freyja, can more easily receive the puberty blockers she needs to treat her Bardet-Biedl syndrome, a genetic disorder that has caused her to enter precocious puberty.
Jones-Radtke told The Texas Tribune that her daughter's pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Hector Granados, the only person providing youth hormone care in all of El Paso, stopped prescribing puberty blockers after being sued by anti-trans Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for allegedly violating the state's gender-affirming care ban.
Granados was handed an injunction, banning him from prescribing the blockers to trans youth or from providing "false diagnoses, such as precocious puberty," so that his patients could continue their care. The situation resulted in Granados stopping prescribing puberty blockers altogether.
"I think the passage, as well as the enforcement of [the gender-affirming care ban], is likely making it harder to attract pediatric endocrinologists to the region," Granados's attorney, Mark Bracken, told the Tribune. "We've made a lot of headway and improvement... attracting more specialists and more doctors. But there's a long way to go."
In short, doctors are scared and are even limiting themselves from offering hormone medications to cisgender kids for reasons unrelated to gender identity.
"I love Texas but right now, it doesn't feel like they love us back," Jones-Radtke said.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/trans-health-care-ban-forces-cis-special-needs-child-to-flee-state-to-obtain-critical-hormone-care/
Molly Sprayregen (10 March 2026)
A Texas family's struggle to obtain medical care for their special needs child exemplifies the way anti-trans laws can hurt everybody, not just those who identify as something other than their sex assigned at birth.
Gabrielle Jones-Radtke, who has lived in El Paso her whole life, is now being forced to move to New Mexico so that her seven-year-old daughter, Freyja, can more easily receive the puberty blockers she needs to treat her Bardet-Biedl syndrome, a genetic disorder that has caused her to enter precocious puberty.
Jones-Radtke told The Texas Tribune that her daughter's pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Hector Granados, the only person providing youth hormone care in all of El Paso, stopped prescribing puberty blockers after being sued by anti-trans Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for allegedly violating the state's gender-affirming care ban.
Granados was handed an injunction, banning him from prescribing the blockers to trans youth or from providing "false diagnoses, such as precocious puberty," so that his patients could continue their care. The situation resulted in Granados stopping prescribing puberty blockers altogether.
"I think the passage, as well as the enforcement of [the gender-affirming care ban], is likely making it harder to attract pediatric endocrinologists to the region," Granados's attorney, Mark Bracken, told the Tribune. "We've made a lot of headway and improvement... attracting more specialists and more doctors. But there's a long way to go."
In short, doctors are scared and are even limiting themselves from offering hormone medications to cisgender kids for reasons unrelated to gender identity.
"I love Texas but right now, it doesn't feel like they love us back," Jones-Radtke said.