Senate Bill 14 is the latest blow to people in Texas who are transgender.
Just 1.42 percent of teenagers 13 to 17 in Texas identify as transgender, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. That’s a small percentage, but it’s about 30,000 youth who will live, along with parents, with the consequences of this law.that target transgender youth, saying they “worsen mental health, increase the risk of suicide, and contribute to poorer overall health for transgender and gender diverse youth.
State Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, is an emergency room physician who breaks from this predominant medical view. She has called such treatment medically unnecessary and experimental. When the bill passed in the Texas House,As so often is the case in Texas, we focus on the wrong issues and in the wrong ways.
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