'There’s nothing more personal than health decisions affecting one’s own body and nothing more worthy of condemnation than government’s intrusion on those decisions,' The Editorial Board writes.
In this Thursday, May 20, 2021 file photo, demonstrators gather on the steps to the State Capitol to speak against transgender-related legislation bills being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House in Austin, Texas.labeling most therapy for transgender children and teens as child abuse spread over 13 pages, contained 21 footnotes and credited no fewer than eight lawyers, including Paxton, in coming to its radical conclusions.
The Texas Legislature had an opportunity last session to outlaw these therapies, but the bill failed as did similar bills in Alabama and elsewhere.existing prohibitions against child abuse could be interpreted to already outlaw surgery and other treatments. Paxton’s opinion says yes.letter to Commissioner Jaime Masters
There are many things wrong with that statement, which it is grossly dismissive of the very children Paxton purports to be helping. Olezeski said there are lessons to be learned from how society once forced gay people to either hide their homosexuality or live as heterosexuals: “What we have seen from that data from conversion therapy is that forcing young people into one mode or another causes extreme mental health issues.”
The puberty blockers can be important because, while their effects are easily reversible, the changes a body undergoes during adolescence are not.
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