Five Texas families sue the state over its ban on health care for trans youth.
With weeks to go before Texas' ban ongoes into effect, five families with transgender children, along with three medical providers, are suing to blockas unconstitutional before it can upend the lives of thousands of Texas families."The cruelty is the point here," said, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas."The cruelty is what's driving this legislation.
By the end of the 88th regular session of the Texas Legislature, after months of rallies and die-ins from queer activists, it became clear that the Republican majority wouldn't budge on denying transgender youth access to certain lifesaving medical care. In early June, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law SB 14, prohibiting Texas health care professionals from treating gender dysphoria, including through hormone therapy and puberty blockers.
Similar challenges to anti-trans laws across the country might offer some respite for these plaintiffs. In June, a federal judge in Florida delivered a massive blow to politicians who would rather not admit that, as he wrote, gender identity is real."This kind of care is only banned when it's provided to transgender adolescents with gender dysphoria and for no other purpose," Harper Seldin, an ACLU staff attorney, said in a press teleconference.
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