Texas has quietly withdrawn its lawsuit against a pediatric endocrinologist accused of violating the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, finding no evidence of wrongdoing nearly a year after it sued Hector Granados in one of the first challenges of its kind.

Texas’s Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, sued Granados last October, calling the El Paso physician a “scofflaw who is harming the health and safety of Texas children.”

The lawsuit, filed in a Texas district court, accused Granados of flouting a 2022 state law barring health care providers from administering hormones, puberty blockers and rare surgical procedures as treatment for minors’ gender dysphoria — severe psychological distress that stems from a mismatch between a person’s gender identity and sex at birth.

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