Ken Paxton: Last News

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Paxton

This is definitely not an all-encompassing, exhaustive list of the villains who have plagued the LGBTQ community. We know there are plenty of others. But these are the ones who rose to the top of the villainous heap.

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There was no bigger villain for the LGBTQ community in 2024 than Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Paxton turned his attention toward targeting the community, especially transgender Texans early in the year, using the power of the Office of the Attorney General as a weapon against them.

In late January, just days before attorneys for plaintiffs — including PFLAG — challenging Texas’ Senate Bill 14, the 2023 law banning gender-affirming care for trans minors, were to argue their case before the Texas Supreme Court, news broke that Paxton had requested private medical information about Texas youth who received gender-affirming health care from a Georgia-based telehealth clinic. Paxton had earlier demanded such information from Seattle Children’s hospital in November 2023.

Still no word on how Paxton managed to access confidential health records of private citizens.

In February, Paxton demanded that PFLAG National turn over information and documents about its support of Texas families seeking gender-affirming medical care for their transgender children, prompting PFLAG to sue the Texas OAG in response, calling his demands “outrageous and unconstitutional.”

Paxton sued three Texas doctors in 2024, two in North Texas and one in West Texas, alleging that the physicians had violated SB 14 by continuing to provide gender-affirming care to transgender minors.

While trans youth were Paxton’s favorite target in 2024, Paxton also used the OAG to target trans adults, too.

After Paxton asked the Driver License Division of the Department of Public Safety to provide him with a list of every Texan who had requested name and gender-marker changes to licenses or state IDs, the Driver’s License Division chief notified

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