It doesn't matter what the parents of trans kids say - Texas senators say they know best and are fighting them every step of the way.
Liz's daughter, Cal at a trans-advocacy day event; they have been attending them together as a family since she came out.Liz waited 14 hours along with more than 400 other people at the Texas Capitol to testify against a bill that would restrict access to transgender gender-affirming care to minors – only to get turned away when the clock struck midnight.
Of the 57 under review, three bills have passed in the Senate and are being sent over to the House for consideration. Under the bill’s provisions, no public money could go to any health care providers and any medical school or hospital that provides these surgeries or medications. “These bills are being proposed with a complete lack of evidence and spreading misinformation about this care,” Perez said. “This medical association has become a pseudo-legitimate agency that is now attempting to give scientific credibility to a movement that doesn’t have it,” Perez said.
For younger transgender children this care can consist of counseling and affirmative displays of gender expression – such as choosing preferred pronouns and names or wearing clothing that aligns with the child’s preferred gender. For older adolescents it includes medication, such as puberty blockers or hormone therapy.
Although not all transgender children need access to mental health care, some do, as they struggle with gender dysphoria or need additional emotional support throughout their transitioning process that they may not get outside of professional care, Kumar said. Not completely unversed in transgender topics, both Liz and Eugene work with children, as a licensed counselor and science teacher respectively. They still felt like they needed guidance on the next steps and decided to take Cal to see her pediatrician.
“As a parent I am responsible for her well-being – physical, mental and academic – and she flourished with affirmation,” Eugene said. “In my career, I have probably had a handful of students that were in Cal’s position, that were not receiving the same sort of affirmation at home and there was a block that not only prevented them from being successful in my classroom, but in life.”
And according to Kumar, the claims that this medicine is irreversible by Texas Legislators are incorrect. Puberty blockers are entirely reversible in their effect and many of the effects of hormone therapy are also reversible – contingent on the length of time an individual has taken them. In many of these states during earlier legislative sessions, legislators first proposed anti-trans bills barring transgender college athletes’ rights to compete, then introduced the bathroom bills banning transgender individuals from using public bathrooms that aligned with their gender and bills that equated parents providing their children with gender affirmation to child abuse.
“Sometimes, I just feel so drained and pissed off that I have to call and ask, is this a safe space for my kid, are you a person I can leave my kid with and guarantee that she will feel safe and be protected?” Liz said. “We have families that have left because of job reasons, but those are job reasons that came at a good time for what was the right choice for their family,” Thompson said. “They were concerned, especially parents of transgender children, for the safety of their kids.”
Cal interjected and said Venus may be the better option, before Liz jokingly told her children that outer space may not be the most optimal relocation.
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