Texas Scorecard by Brandon Waltens January 30, 2024
Oral arguments on Senate Bill 14 were heard in the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday.The fate of legislation to ban child gender mutilation in Texas is in the hands of the state’s Supreme Court.
Senate Bill 14 by State Sen. Donna Campbell (R–New Braunfels) protects children from being chemically castrated by puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and from receiving mutilative surgeries.
After Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill into law last year, the ACLU of Texas and five families with gender-confused children filed a lawsuit to challenge Texas’ child gender mutilation ban, arguing it would prevent “trans youth” from receiving “life-saving care.”
In August, a district judge in Travis County granted a preliminary injunction, which would temporarily allow children to continue to access gender-mutilative surgeries and cross-sex hormones. That was quickly appealed by the Office of the Attorney General to the Texas Supreme Court, freezing the lower court’s injunction and allowing the law to go into effect.
Oral arguments were finally heard in the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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