Texas Scorecard by Jacob Asmussen November 17, 2020
The potential state law would prevent medical professionals from performing scarring gender-related operations on children. If state lawmakers choose to pass a newly proposed law, Texas children may soon be protected from scarring gender disfigurement procedures.
Last week, State Rep. Steve Toth (R–The Woodlands) filed legislation to stop medical professionals from performing a variety of harmful and potentially permanently damaging operations on children. The law would ban numerous gender-related procedures that “attemp[t] to change or affirm a child’s perception of the child’s sex, if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex as determined by the child’s sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous hormone profiles.â€
Medical professionals would not be allowed to do things to children such as “performing a surgery that sterilizes the child, including castration,†“administering or supplying any of the following medications that induce transient or permanent infertility†such as puberty blockers, or “removing any otherwise healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue.â€
The law would categorize these operations as child abuse.
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/state/new-bill-would-classify-gender-disfigurement-as-child-abuse/