Despite a win in a lower court, an appeal by the state means #SB14, our devastating ban on #healthcare for young #transgender kids goes into effect today.

Digital Editor Kit @oconnell spoke with a top New Mexico endocrinologist, and with a policy analyst for ACLU of #Texas about the "heartbreaking" effects this law is already having on young folks and their families: https://www.texasobserver.org/sb14-trans-healthcare-ban/

#news #transphobia #trans #politics #USpol #TXlege #healthcare #Newstodon

As of today, Sept 1st, 2023, SB14 - the horrendously fascist & transphobic law banning gender-affirming care for minors & punishing parents / doctors who aid them - is going into effect despite an originally accepted temporary pause / injunction.

This. Is. Genocide.

How can you help?

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Let's do what we can with what we have now. Together.

#TransCrowdFund #trans #transgender #TXlege #Texas #SB14 #antitrans #transgenocide

Feel free to pass this on to any North #Texas family who needs help traveling out of state to get a #Trans family member the #HealthCare they need.

https://dallasvoice.com/local-church-launches-transportation-response-to-sb-14/

https://www.northtexastransportationnetwork.org

#Transgender #GenderMinority #LGBT #Queer #SB14 #NTX

Shame on the #California #Assembly #SB14 #childtrafficking

https://newstarget.com/2023-07-13-california-legislators-block-bill-child-trafficking-felony.html

Shame on the #California #Assembly #SB14 #childtrafficking

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-13-california-legislators-block-bill-child-trafficking-felony.html

By me, from “The Awful 88th” at @TexasObserver:

Although Republicans floated dozens of anti-#LGBTQ+ bills during the regular session, just a handful of them made it to the governor’s desk. Still, each one whittles away at the rights of #queer folks in #Texas in different and distinctly harmful ways. These include: banning medically-necessary #gender-affirming care for #transgender young people, banning transgender athletes from participating in #sports at public colleges and universities, a broadly written bill targeting “sexually explicit” performances (meant to criminalize drag performers), and a bill to ban or restrict public library books that #Republicans deem to be “sexually explicit” or “educationally unsuitable.”

The most immediately harmful bill of the bunch looks to be Senate Bill 14, which prohibits evidence-based, frequently life-saving care for transgender young people under 18, including treatments like hormones and puberty-blockers, a reversible treatment to slow the onset of adolescence. Doctors caught providing these forms of #healthcare to trans kids would be stripped of their medical licenses, even though essentially all of the same treatments can legally be used on cisgender individuals (and most controversially, intersex people) under other circumstances. For example, some cis kids who enter puberty too early may be prescribed the same blockers now banned for trans kids.

A coalition of groups including Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center, and American Civil Liberties Union (#ACLU) of Texas have pledged to sue to block the bill’s enforcement on the grounds that it creates an illegal double standard. Thanks to Abbott’s signature on Monday, the new law goes into effect September 1, and it’s already becoming harder to access trans healthcare in the state as doctors and clinics move or close.

“In the last two weeks, we have probably gotten somewhere between 40 and 50 phone calls from panicked parents,” a leading New Mexico pediatric physician told the Observer. “What I’m hearing from families is that appointments that they had already scheduled are now gone,” said Dr. Michele Hutchison, chief of pediatric endocrinology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. That leaves families scrambling to secure care in neighboring states to avoid disastrous interruptions in treatment.

Senate Bill 12, the so-called “drag ban” bill, underwent significant changes in its journey through the two chambers. Explicit references to #drag performers were removed but the bill’s scope was broadened to ban so-called “sexually explicit” performances anywhere minors are present. A last-minute addition targets the usage of certain prosthetic body parts, such as the silicone breasts or artificial phalluses sometimes worn by drag performers—and by some transgender people, too.

“There is no good version of this bill,” said Ash Hall, a policy and advocacy strategist at the ACLU of Texas who focuses on queer rights. “Because it’s not limited to business premises anymore, a major concern I have is how this is going to play out in #Pride parades,” they said.

However, Hall suggested Abbott might veto the bill because, as written, it could even affect performances by groups like the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Of course, if this one is vetoed, the next step could be passage of a new version of the bill in special session. Already, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has called for a special session bill to ban drag queen story hours at public libraries.

Despite the record-breaking attacks on LGBTQ+ rights this year, Hall said they find hope in the queer community, which came out by the thousands to oppose the bills.

“They want us all to go back in the closet and be miserable or shut up, but we won’t,” Hall said. “#Trans people have always been here and always will be. They can’t legislate us away.”

Read more at https://www.texasobserver.org/88th-session-texas-legislature-lgbtq-energy-schools/

#politics #transphobia #trans #HumanRights #SB14 #censorship #books #Libraries #FreeSpeech #LGBTQIA+ #TXLege

From the archives: A Mayo Clinic psychologist and a #gender-therapy specialist (who is also #transgender) weigh in on why gender-affirming care for #trans kids is vital ...
https://www.texasobserver.org/healthcare-for-trans-kids-is-not-abuse/

#Pride #LGBTQIA #transphobia #healthcare #HumanRights #news #sb14

This came up in the comments earlier in our discussion about #SB14, the #Texas ban on gender-affirming #healthcare for #trans young folks:

With hidden caveats, bans on #transgender kids' healthcare ensure #intersex people continue to be subject to medically unnecessary surgeries in infancy. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-anti-trans-laws-target-intersex-people-too/

#Pride #LGBTQIA+ #TXlege #gender #transphobia #HumanRights #politics #news

@turboquokka @not2b @JessTheUnstill @oconnell here it is in #sb14 from #Texas:

#transphobia #politics #news #transgender

Featured story: Like Fast & Furious X, yesterday’s decision by the #Texas Legislature to approve #SB14—a bill banning hormone and puberty-blocking treatments as well as surgeries for #transgender children—is just the latest release from a franchise with a winning box office formula.

Call it Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization 2.0: The Saga Continues.
https://www.texasobserver.org/fast-furious-xi-texas-transgender-youth/

#TXlege #transphobia #news #healthcare #politics #HumanRights #LGBTQIA+

Headed for the governor’s desk, #SB14 shows that the Legislature has no idea what #healthcare for #trans kids even is.

Correspondent Nancy Goldstein returns to the Observer to bust myths about #gender-affirming care... not to mention the idea that the #Republicans care, at all, about children:

https://www.texasobserver.org/fast-furious-xi-texas-transgender-youth/

#transphobia #news #politics #USpol #TXlege #Texas #HumanRights #children

RT @taygoldenstein: Meyerland Area Democrats Club (@MeyerDems) has voted to censure state Rep. Shawn Thierry @ShawnieT146 after her votes for R priorities #SB14, banning transgender health care for minors, and #HB900, restricting school library books. It's club's first censure in 2 decades. #txlege

#Texas having a normal one.

I hate this more than words can say. And this isn't even touching the impact #SB14 is gonna have.

https://www.chron.com/news/local/article/dell-childrens-doctors-gender-affirming-care-18097942.php

#transphobia #lgbtq

Owen Shroyer questions supporters of transgender operations for children regarding what the definition of a “trans kid” actually is on the day the Texas House votes on Bill #SB14.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/trans-kids-protesters-greeted-by-infowars-reporters-upon-arriving-at-texas-capitol-watch/ #infowars

For a SECOND time this week, #Texas Democrats have successfully delayed the #SB14 anti-trans healthcare law, which would block access to #gender-affirming care for young folks. https://nitter.nl/lmcgaughy/status/1654589937214279681#m

#transphobia #news #politics #USpol #HumanRights #healthcare #trans #transgender #LGBTQIA+ #democrats #TXlege

Meet the FACE of THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS WHEN YOU GO%#$@^#%$&@

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/05/05/think-anheuser-busch-jumped-the-trans-shark-smirnoff-says-hold-my-vodka-n741448?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=f1570c960de7a4b187508d1c31c3c963
@SmirnoffUS
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A radical trans activist who participated in an illegal insurrection in the Texas state house this week and flashed his backside and genitals in front of teenage children and women.
He also testified in opposition to SB14 against a ban on child genital surgeries.
He campaigns for children yet his Twitter is littered with horrifying explicit content!

Is this person someone who should be the face of a vodka brand? #sb14

@TexasObserver I see the #SB14 vote was delayed until “later this week” and that the protesters and advocates were not welcome. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/02/texas-trans-kids-health-care-ban/

Today, the #Texas House of Representatives is voting on #SB14. a bill which would effectively ban gender-affirming #healthcare for #trans young folks.

From the archives: Two Mayo Clinic psychologists worry about what will happen to #transgender youth if or when their health care is taken away. https://www.texasobserver.org/healthcare-for-trans-kids-is-not-abuse/

#TXlege #HumanRights #politics #USpol #LGBTQIA+ #health #gender

#Politics #Texas #TxLege #SB14 #Detransition #PrecociousPuberty

Sen Donna Campbell must have gotten her medical education by reading the back of Cracker Jack box.

She is a fucking idiot.

She is flat out lying about the fact that puberty blockers work one way on a certain patient but work differently on another patient.

She is spouting off lies about statistics regarding detransition regret despite another senator giving her evidence to the contrary!