Home lawmakers to think about prohibiting gender transition care for minors

AUSTIN - - The Texas House Committee on Public Health on Monday will consider a costs that would ban minors from getting medical treatment to change their gender.

HB 1686 by State Rep. Tom Oliverson (R-Cypress) would restrict physicians from supplying gender transition surgery or "the age of puberty blockers" to Texans under 18. It would likewise excuse that care from protection under state health insurance strategies.

"This whole home industry operates without self guideline to the hinderance of susceptible kids," Rep. Oliverson tweeted Monday.

The American Medical Association opposes any such legislation, calling it "a dangerous governmental intrusion into the practice of medication" that "will be harmful to the health of transgender kids" in a 2021 letter to the National Governors Association.

The costs corresponds the Texas Senate's buddy legislation, SB 14 by State Sen. Donna Campbell (R-New Braunfels). That bill was lost consciousness of the Senate State Affairs Committee on March 22 and is awaiting an argument on the Senate floor.

Your house committee clerk told KXAN 372 individuals have signed up to testify. At least one progressive company, Texas Freedom Network, is opposing at the Texas Capitol Monday.

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