The Senate advanced a bill that could create such high financial risks for doctors and health insurers that they’d stop providing or covering gender-affirming care — even for adults.
, which have limited their focus to restricting transition-related medical care only for trans youth.Transgender Texans and doctors say Republican lawmakers misconstrue what science says about puberty blockers and hormone therapy“This isn’t about kids’ safety. This isn’t about medication safety,” Hamilton added. “It’s specifically targeting transgender people because they’re a small group of people who are easily marginalized.
During the Senate debate, several Democrats sought clarifications on SB 1029 and pushed back against it.
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