The Texas House LGBTQ Caucus issued a statement today (Friday, April 16) regarding House Bill 1399, voted out of committee yesterday (Thursday, April 15). HB 1399 , by Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, would prohibit gender transition treatments for children and remove professional liability insurance coverage for physicians offering this care.
The LGBTQ Caucus statement reads:
“We are deeply disappointed in this action. The deadline to submit virtual testimony was not even closed before the vote was taken, stripping Texans of their rights to participate in the legislative process and damaging the credibility of this body.
“Moreover, bills like this are a blatant attack on trans kids. Rather than advancing this type of regressive and hurtful legislation, we should be focusing on important issues like the energy crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are encouraging leadership to use the remaining weeks of the legislative session to address the most pressing issues facing our state and uplift public engagement to ensure we are making policies that best serve Texans.”
— Tammye Nash
Our children are more important than the energy crisis. Our children should not be touched by transgender drugs that will change their adult identity. Instead let them decide that after the age of 25 for their self! This bill is necessary to protect our youth from guardians who brainwash them to transform too early without their full knowledge of what it means. They deserve health care that leads, such as counseling in case they get depressed cus they have to wait. Cus all kids cry when it’s for their own good not to get what they want, yet. They can get it when they’re grown and can make grown up decisions. I say 25 the state will probably say 18.