The Texas Legislature has passed several bills to prohibit puberty blockers, transition surgeries, and drag shows for Texans under 18 years old.
Senate Bill 14 would prohibit any surgery or drugs given to children under 18. The House voted for the bill 92-28. For the past few weeks, the bill has been stalled in the House. The law will prohibit physicians from transitioning children and will be at risk of losing their licenses and being prosecuted by the Texas Attorney General’s office.
The only exceptions to the practice in the bill are, “puberty suppression or blocking prescription drugs for the purpose of normalizing puberty for a minor experiencing precocious puberty… child who is born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development…does not have the normal sex chromosome structure for male or female as determined by a physician through genetic testing.”