Thu May 4, 2023 – 5:43 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A group of boisterous LGBT activists were forcibly removed from the Texas State Capitol building Tuesday after disrupting the legislative proceedings taking place on the House floor. They were protesting a bill that would outlaw the mutilation of gender-confused minors.
Here’s one of the transurrectionists being arrestedpic.twitter.com/FQZxG7uKEc
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 2, 2023
HB 1686 is the latest in a growing number of proposals across the U.S. that seek to curtail the disturbing trend of children “transitioning” into the opposite sex. At present, more than 15 states have laws that outlaw in some fashion what liberals misleadingly call “gender-affirming care” for American youths.
If passed and signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, HB 1686 — and its Senate counterpart, SB14 — would prevent children from having access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy. It would also require children to be “weaned off” those types of drugs if they are already on them. It bans “gender reassignment” surgeries as well.
Republican state Rep. Tom Oliverson is one of the bill’s co-sponsors. At committee hearings held on the measure, he strongly denounced the “false dichotomy” that
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