Texans gathered at the Texas Capitol on Monday to protest bills that would prohibit physicians from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youth.
If passed, House Bill 1686 and Senate Bill 14 would ban physicians and health care providers from performing surgeries or prescribing hormones or puberty blockers to anyone under the age of 18 in Texas. Physicians who violate these proposed bills would have their license to practice revoked. The rally, organized by ACLU Texas, Equality Texas, Texas Freedom Network, the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal and the Transgender Education Network of Texas attracted roughly 200 activists and Austinites to the Capitol’s outdoor rotunda.
Sofia Sepulveda, community engagement manager at Equality Texas, spoke at the rally to protest the anti-trans legislation and other bills that could allow for discrimination against LGBTQ+ people.
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