Sat Apr 1, 2023 – 6:22 pm EDT
AUSTIN (LifeSiteNews) — The Texas Senate passed two bills this week to ban mutilating transgender hormonal and surgical interventions for children and block gender-confused males from competing in women’s college sports.
On Wednesday, the Senate passed SB 14, which bans healthcare providers from performing “gender transitioning or gender reassignment procedures” on children under 18 years old.
Specifically, the bill bans subjecting minors to sterilizing surgeries, including castrations and hysterectomies, mastectomies, and procedures to “remove any otherwise healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue.” It also outlaws providing or prescribing children puberty blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones.
The bill, authored by Republican state Sen. Donna Campbell, includes exceptions for children with precocious puberty, a “medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development,” or an abnormal sex chromosome structure determined through genetic testing.
SB 14 requires the Texas medical board to revoke the licenses of physicians who violate the bill and allows the state attorney general to bring actions to enforce it.
It additionally blocks public funding for any entity or individual that “provides or facilitates” “gender transition” procedures for children and prohibits Medicaid reimbursement and public health plan coverage for
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