Breaking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: Health care for transgender children is abuse
Spokespeople for the Department of Family and Protective Services and Texas Health and Human Services said the agencies would be reviewing the opinion.
In arguing his point, Paxton likened transgender youth health care to the opioid crisis. State have an interest in “routinely” regulating the medical profession and health care guidelines, he said, to protect the public. “There is always the potential for novel medical determinations to promote purported remedies that may not improve patient outcomes and can even result in tragic harms. The same potential for harm exists for minors who have engaged in the type of procedures or treatments above,” Paxton wrote.Paxton also addressed parental rights to access health care for this child, saying there are limits.
“This general right to consent to certain medically necessary procedures does not extend to elective procedures and treatments that infringe upon a minor child’s constitutional right to procreate,” he said, referencing surgical interventions that medical experts says is not recommend for young patients.
Gender dysphoria is the feeling of discomfort or distress that can occur in people who identify as a gender that is different from the gender or sex assigned at birth, according to
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