The first anti-transgender bill, HB68, has been filed in the Texas Legislature by Steve Toth, R-Spring, with the caption, “Relating to the definition of abuse of a child.”
The bill seeks to amend the Family Code. The first portion of the bill deals with forcing a child to perform sex, trafficking, prostitution and appearing in porn.
The next section deals with using puberty-blockers on teens who are transgender “for the purpose of attempting to change or affirm a child’s perception of the child’s sex, if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex as determined by the child’s sex organs, chromosomes and endogenous hormone profiles.”
The bill lists types of surgery that would be forbidden, although gender-confirming surgery is never performed on someone younger than 18.
The law targets medical professionals and mental health professionals as well as family members. Using puberty blockers would come under “family violence” and would be punishable as such. Medical professionals would lose their license and be subject to prison.
— David Taffet
As it should be! They need therapy not hormones!
Puberty blockers are NOT hormones. You need to educate yourself a bit.
Sorry not up to date on my trans lingo! Lmao
God made you a man or women for a reason! Don’t mess with it!
According to the bible homosexuality is also a sin and yet you’re gay.
Aha! So your REAL reason is a religious one and nothing to do with public health.
Why am I not surprised
If The Bible is God’s word and in the Bible it says that men who have sex with men are abomination, then how do you reconcile your own rebellion against God? Oh you don’t believe that bring homosexual is against Gods will? Yet you assert that being transgender or intersex is contrary to God’s will? Maybe you and God should have a talk.
Religious involvement is ruining the fight to stop the child abuse.
Keep it secular please. Keep it based in science and law. They keep rejecting the religious argument because our government is secular remember separated church and state.
So who created intersex people?
You are right. The GnRH analogues are not hormones. Originally, this class of drugs was used for prostate cancer and endometriosis. They have also been used to reduce libido in sex offenders. The GnRH analogues can also be used to precocious puberty which is not the same as a psychological issue in children. They are used off label for “gender dysporia” in kids. No one really knows the long term effects. At any rate, this is the main problem. If the GnRH analogues are followed by cross gender hormones, infertility is a given. Virtually all kids on GnRH analogues end up on hormones. It’s a fact that children are being sterilized with GnRH analogues and hormones. It’s also true that some males medically transitioned at young age, never allowed to go through puberty, have no sexual functioning.
They are specifically hormone agonists.
Thank god! This is not anti trans- this is an act to protect children! You would not give a 14 y/o who thinks shes fat liposuction so why would we do any other kind of irreversible damage to them at such a young age? Let children be children and play with gender without setting them up to make permanent life changing decisions.
Prescribing ‘experimental’ Puberty Blockers to a child clearly relates to the definition of abuse of a child. This should never have been allowed to happen and many of us around the world hope this bill is passed, for the sake of vulnerable kids!
puberty blockers are not permanent at all. It is not “family violence” in any legal sense at all. Plus, keep one’s personal viewpoint of “god” out of this, only the parents, doctors and any therapists should be involved. Thank you.
Puberty blockers are a pathway to cross sex hormone use. Over 98% of children who receive puberty blockers go on to receive cross sex hormones. This leads to sterility.
I am a Deist who worships Deity as Goddess, but that is just a title and I believe Deity is neither male or female. If one did go with the Christian Bible that says “god” create man and woman in “his” image but then says “god” created Eve out of Adam, which makes Eve the sex-changed clone of Adam. One should believe in reason and nature. Do research and not just rely on someone else ‘s bias.
Children shouldn’t be able to make these decisions on their own or with their parents import until they are 18!
Children are not making these decisions on their own. These decisions are made ultimately by parents and health care professionals with the child’s input and best interests in mind.
These healthcare professionals need to lose their license!
Children and parents make life altering decisions all the time from simply crossing the street to playing dangerous sports to medical decisions unrelated to gender dysphoria – all of which can result in death. Singling out one medical decisions decisions related to gender dysphoria which have scientifically proven results can only be interpreted as bigotry. Shame on you.
Here we go again, another liberal that doesn’t agree with someone with conservative viewpoints calls them a bigot. Turn off cnn lady!
Crossing the street and playing football or racing cars is no comparison to changing someone’s gender ! Again, TURN OFF CNN
Where are you getting CNN from? I for one do not watch any new outlets because I don’t trust any of them. I do research, like, scientifically. But, I’m also not a liberal so I guess that’s why.
That’s….not how puberty blockers work! They are not hormones!
Also, it makes me sick that they are so up in arms about not allowing surgery on trans kids (which no one would do anyway) and yet they do surgeries all the time on intersex children!
Puberty blockers are not safe, anyone who bothers to read what they were made for and their side effects would know this. Children cannot even comprehend long term consequences because their brains haven’t fully developed yet we have adults fighting to stop their puberty? Seems like a disturbing fight.
The idea that a girl isn’t a girl because she is masculine and likes “boy” things and a boy isn’t a boy because he is feminine and likes “girl” things is rooted in sexism and homophobia.
Leave children alone. And how can anyone say these kids get adequate medical care recommendations for transition when the same doctors are accused of transphobia the moment they don’t immediately affirm this new version of sexism?
You wouldn’t recommend stapling the stomach of a person with anorexia, so why recommend body altering treatments for a person with another kind of body dysphoria? Either our bodies are beautiful and should be celebrated or they’re wrong the moment society says they are.
Just out of curiosity — and this is a sincere question — how many of the people commenting here, on either side of the argument, about what puberty blockers are and/or do are medical professionals or scientists/researchers in this field?
It is a flat out lie that gender confirming surgeries are not done on minors. For example, the Boston Center for Gender Surgery does them on 15-year-olds with parental consent. How can you trust people to really care about gender-confused children when they refuse to tell the truth?