There are 140 anti-LGBTQ bills in the Texas Legislature, including 42 targeted toward people who are transgender.
."Doctor Hotze, I know you're a medical doctor and a professional. I would just ask you to refrain from calling people pedophiles, because I don't think the doctors that have come before us today are pedophiles.""I have trans friends, I have trans staff members, I have trans members of my community, and what you do when you call them , it's very hurtful to them," Menéndez said.
SB 14 is among the most unsettling of the anti-transgender bills because it would infringe on a parent's and child’s freedom to make informed health care choices; and it would prevent doctors from providing leading and appropriate medical advice. The measure would require the Texas Medical Board to revoke the licenses of physicians who provide gender-affirming care, and it would prohibit taxpayer funds from being used for that care.
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