(The Center Square) – Attorney General Ken Paxton is continuing to take action against entities that are in violation of state law, including violating prohibitions against boys in girls’ sports, abortion and spying and blackmail.
Paxton filed a legal petition to depose key Dallas Independent School District officials as part of an ongoing investigation to ensure the district isn’t violating Texas law by permitting biological males to participate in girls’ sports. The investigation was launched after a video was posted of Dallas ISD and Irving ISD staff discussing their efforts to circumvent state law.
In 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law to prohibit K-12 students from competing in interscholastic athletic competitions designated for the opposite biological sex. In 2023, Abbott signed another bill into law prohibiting biological men from competing on a team or as an individual against women in college sports, The Center Square reported.
In February, Paxton requested extensive records from Dallas and Irving ISDs over their alleged policies to circumvent state law. Paxton said there is “alarming evidence” that Dallas ISD “had implemented an unwritten policy of encouraging students to alter their birth certificates to play sports” in violation of state law.
Of those being deposed is Dallas ISD’s LGBT Youth Program Coordinator Mahoganie Gaston, who was reportedly filmed telling a parent that a male student could participate in girls’ sports if the birth certificate was altered, according to the Attorney General’s Office. She also allegedly said the district “find[s] the loopholes in everything” and she was willing to go to jail for defying Texas law.
“School districts must follow the law, keep our children safe, and end these insane ‘gender theory’ policies that ignore reality and encourage illegal actions. ISD officials who have participated in this madness will be held accountable,” Paxton said.
After a case was referred to the Office of Attorney General related to three Houston area abortion facilities, including one that hired illegal foreign nationals, the OAG sued and recently secured a temporary injunction. In this case, three individuals were arrested for allegedly illegally providing abortions and operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area in violation of state laws, The Center Square reported.
“This network of clinics illegally aborted unborn children and practiced medicine without a license, intentionally deceiving and endangering the communities they claimed to serve,” Paxton said. “Today’s win means these fake clinics will remain closed and be prevented from harming anyone else while the case continues.”
Last month, a district judge issued a temporary restraining order to shut down operations at Clinica Waller Latinoamericana in Waller, Clinica Latinoamericana Telge in Cypress, and Latinoamericana Medical Clinic in Spring. At a hearing held late last month, he next issued a temporary injunction ensuring they won’t reopen. The order prohibits all people and entities associated with the clinics from practicing medicine or performing abortions in violation of state law until the case is over, or the judge says otherwise.
Because of Texas’ abortion ban, the Texas’ Human Life Protection Act, zero elective abortions were reported in Texas from August 2022 through October 2024, according to state data, The Center Square reported. It appears that any abortions that were illegally performed through clinics like these were not reported to the state.
The OAG also launched an investigation into Superior Insurance after its CEO admitted the company hired private investigators to perform surveillance and gather potentially confidential information on lawmakers, journalists and private citizens who have pending insurance claims against it.
At a Texas House Committee on Delivery of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hearing last week, Superior Insurance CEO Mark Sanders told lawmakers the company “hired and directed private investigators to spy on members of the Texas Legislature as well as [journalists] and private citizens seeking payment of medical bills,” Paxton’s office said. Lawmakers expressed concerns about the practice, saying it was implemented “to secure leverage to help the company win future state contracts and to discredit their own customers seeking payment on legitimate insurance claims,” Paxton’s office says, prompting the OAG to immediately open “an investigation into Superior’s potentially unlawful actions.”
“The allegations concerning Superior’s actions, such as actions that were characterized as potentially blackmailing lawmakers to secure state contracts and surveilling private citizens to avoid paying legitimate claims, are deeply troubling,” Paxton said. “I will get to the bottom of this, uncover any illegal activity, and hold bad actors responsible. Justice will be served.”
