“It becomes such a joy to treat these patients and see them blossom, because you observe patients going from a very sad, hopeless state to being comfortable with themselves,' Dr. Ximena Lopez said. Now she's closing her practice.
“I not only worry about the lack of care they're going to get, but I also worry a lot about how they feel seeing this happening around them,” Lopez said. “They don't feel safe. They don't feel safe going to school, going to the doctor's office. It’s all very scary.Jesse shouts out chants and protests for LGBTQ+ rights in downtown Dallas on Saturday, April 1, 2023. The protest was hosted by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.Lopez is worried for her safety, too.
“We feel negligent, because we will not be able to provide what we know is best for the patient,” she said. “And if we do, then we’ll be doing something that’s illegal. It feels cruel, it feels unethical, and it feels like we’re torturing our patients and ourselves. That’s the reason why I’m leaving. I don’t think I can mentally be able to do that for a long time.”
Lopez said “doctors have lost their voice.” She feels frustrated that she can’t speak out about the scientific and medical proof that gender-affirming medical care“It’s that frustration and impotence that’s really tearing me apart,” Lopez said. “And then going back to [the] clinic and seeing all these families suffering and asking us to help them, it’s just putting us in a very difficult position.
“I do wish that the environment was such that the folks that were more expert in this care, and directly provide it did not feel that their safety and the safety of their patients was threatened by being able to come forward and speak on legislation such as this,” he said. Attorney General Ken Paxton has also begun investigations into gender-affirming care clinics, like Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin. According to reporting from KUT, doctors staffing the clinic left their jobs in May,
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