Under the legislation, minors currently receiving certain gender-affirming care would have to taper off their treatments. A majority of Texas lawmakers in each chamber has supported previous versions of the legislation.
Texas Republicans have filed dozens of bills affecting LGBTQ people. Here’s what they’d do.“I urge my colleagues to consider the real harm these bills are going to have on thousands of Texan families and hope this bill does not continue with passage on the House floor,” he said.
The two bills have also faced fierce public pushback. When the committee held its hearing for HB 1686 last month, fewer than 100 people registered in support of the bill while more than 2,800 people registered in opposition — with LGBTQ Texans and several medical associations saying that maintaining this care is crucial to supporting the mental health of trans youth.
“Trans children are not political punching bags,” Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas, said Friday in a joint statement with other LGBTQ advocacy groups following the votes. “Everyone deserves access to comprehensive and competent healthcare informed by accredited medical professionals. These continuous attacks on healthcare serve as an example of political overstepping in order to dictate the personal and private medical decisions of Texans.
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