A Texas Senate committee on Thursday debated several bills to ban gender affirming care for transgender minors and penalize doctors who provide it. would bar...
this care, on Thursday said it was taking a neutral stance on the bill.
Carlo asked Campbell to amend her bill to allow transgender minors already receiving gender affirming care to be allowed to continue, and to shift implementation power from the state and to the Texas Medical Association. Those speaking in opposition also included doctors who treat transgender people, an Espisocal Church bishop, representatives from LGBTQ advocacy groups Equality Texas and Lambda Legal, the ACLU and several trans Texans themselves.Senate Bill 14 is one of Lt. Gov Dan Patrick’s 30 priorities this session, and has 10 GOP senators signed on as co-authors. Similar bills have been introduced in the Texas House, but neither the speaker nor Gov. Greg Abbott have publicly backed the effort.
Those speaking for the bill included representatives from the Christian advocacy group Texas Values, current and former pediatricians and a prominent anti-LGBTQ activist. The committee invited several individuals who regretted their decision to access gender affirming care, commonly called detransitioners, to speak.
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