After the state attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit to overturn a judge’s temporary injunction, Texas legislation banning transgender youth from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapy will go into effect next week.
State District Court Judge Maria Cant Hexsel declared in her decision Friday that Senate Bill 14 “interferes with the private decisions of Texas families and strips Texas parents… of the right to seek, direct and provide medical care for their children.
In response, the attorney general’s office filed an appeal with the Texas Supreme Court, effectively stopping Cant Hexsel’s order and allowing the law to take effect Friday.
In a statement announcing the request late Friday, the attorney general’s office said such medical therapies are “unproven” and “advocated by some activists in the medical and psychiatric professions.”
During this year’s regular legislative session, Texas lawmakers signed into law SB 14 and many other laws that affect the lives of LGBTQ+ people.
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The judge indicated that he was likely to win the lawsuit. He agreed with the plaintiffs that SB 14 was unconstitutional because it violated the rights of parents to make decisions about their children, violated the freedom of physicians to practice medicine, and discriminated against transgender teens by denying them health care.
“This law was passed because of its impact on transgender teens, and not in spite of them depriving them of necessary, safe, and effective medical treatment,” the judge wrote.
Medical experts testified last week about the effectiveness of transition-related care in treating mental health issues associated with gender dysphoria, a medical term for the anguish someone feels when their gender identity does not match their body. .
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Defense attorneys enlisted the help of physicians and other experts to refute existing data supporting the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy in transgender adolescents with gender dysphoria.
They argued that the dangers of these drugs and transition-related operations, which are rarely performed on children, outweigh the benefits. There is little question about the use of these drugs in the general medical community.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, among others, endorse the use of transitional care for individuals under the age of 18.
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Before the attorney general’s office appealed Cant Hexsel’s verdict, Alex Sheldon, executive director of GLMA, an association of LGBTQ+ health professionals who is one of the plaintiffs, praised him.
“This ruling is a testament to the unwavering dedication of Texas families and the medical expertise of GLMA member health professionals, who have clearly demonstrated with every testimony that gender-affirming care is evidence-based care that life jacket”.
Sheldon said in a statement Friday: “While this was just one battle among many, we remain committed to fighting for the rights of trans youth and healthcare providers who provide gender-affirming care in Texas and across the country. “.
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Texas lawmakers have joined 19 other states in trying to ban transitional care. According to an April poll by the Texas Politics Project, more than 85% of Republican voters in Texas support some restrictions.
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