Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 6/5/2023
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=55082This is news I was expecting, but hadn’t seen in any of the usual sources: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has finally
signed legislation banning child genital mutilation.
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed a bill into law Friday that bans sex-change surgeries and hormonal interventions aimed at transitioning minors with gender dysphoria, as the Lone Star State joins more than a dozen others to pass similar legislation.
Senate Bill 14, which goes into effect on Sept. 1, prohibits medical interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries like double mastectomy for female-born minors identifying as male. It also forbids the use of state funds for such procedures in children.
The law stipulates that the procedures are prohibited “for the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex.”
It sad that there even needs to be a law that bans child genital mutilation (AKA “gender affirming care,” but really “sex-defying cosmetic surgery”), but this is the world we’re living in.
At least until November 2024…
