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AUSTIN, Texas, May 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Popular legislation to ban treatments that surgically or chemically “transition” a child’s sex is formally slated for a vote in the Texas Legislature, but insiders say it has actually fallen victim to a procedural maneuver by state Republican leaders intended to kill it.
House Bill 1399 prohibits physicians from performing on minors medical treatments “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,” except in extremely rare cases of actual hermaphroditism (as confirmed by having genetic or anatomical characteristics of both sexes). The bill also forbids medical insurance policies from insuring physicians against the damage done by such treatments.
The bill was scheduled for a floor vote on Wednesday, May 12 in the state House of Representatives, but despite the chamber’s Republican majority, former state Rep. Matt Rinaldi told National File that, without scheduling a floor debate for the bill,
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