Texas joins over a dozen other states restricting transgender minors from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapies. TexasTribune
Authored by New Braunfels Republican state Sen., the law bars trans kids from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapies, treatments many medical groups support. Children already receiving these treatments will have to be "weaned off" in a "medically appropriate" manner. The law also bans transition-related surgeries for kids, though those are rarely performed on minors.
But trans kids, their parents and major medical groups say these medical treatments are important to protecting the mental health of an already vulnerable population, which faces a higher risk of depression and suicide than their cisgender peers. At the same time, doctors say cutting off these treatments - gradually or abruptly - could bring bothto trans youth, some of whom have called it forced detransitioning.
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