Leaving the Capitol after a long day watching the Committee on Public Health debate a blatantly discriminatory bill towards transgender Texans. “But what we’re talking about today is trying to ban medical care that every major medical association endorses, trying to take away treatment from poor kids and adolescents.” “Here we are in the Public Health Committee meeting in Texas, where we set the record for having the highest number and highest rate of uninsured people in the country,” Carnes said. Saenz was followed by Molly Carnes, who described herself as "the Christian mother of a precious transgender child." She recently published a piece about her daughter's experience in the San Antonio Express-News. I was thinking about fitting in, not the possibility of becoming a parent.’” “Chloe talks in this article that one of her biggest regrets is how the beauty of motherhood was stripped from her at an early age, when she wasn’t able to fully comprehend that loss at age 15. Saenz also passed around an article on Chloe Cole, a woman who reversed her transition and has spoken critically about the care and guidance she got before taking puberty blockers and completing surgery that transitioned her from female to male. And the Texas Medical Association - unlike a number of other health care groups - is no longer taking a position on the bill. More youngsters are coming forward to talk about the pitfalls of their transitions. Seven states have passed laws to outlaw gender-affirming medical care, Saenz said. #HB1686 is getting a lot of attention! Keep contacting your legislators on the House Public Health Committee to ask them to support this legislation! #DoNoHarm #txlege /0MTd6P4Wn5 “Two years ago, this committee heard long, robust and shocking testimony about the harm that children are subjected to with child gender transitions,” Saenz said. Jonathan Saenz, who leads the pro-family, anti-abortion group Texas Values, told the committee that support for the bill had strengthened since 2021 because of more evidence and more information about the actual harm of gender-affirming care. Two of the late testifiers offered typical testimony. Oliverson said he specifically excluded parents from the bill because they were often swayed by doctors who favored medical intervention. The bill also outlaws specific types of medical intervention and empowers the attorney general to prosecute doctors to continue to offer such care. Oliverson’s bill amends the Texas Health & Safety Code, stopping the use of public dollars for medical interventions for adolescents who identify as transgender. Oliverson said he wanted to keep the discussion focused on facts and medical research, and early testimony was stacked with medical professionals and individuals who had reversed their sexual transition. Donna Campbell, an emergency room doctor from New Braunfels, is sponsoring legislation in the Senate. Tom Oliverson, an anesthesiologist from Houston, is carrying the bill in the House. "Klick lies, kids die" chanted by protesters when testimony on HB 1686 was cut short at midnight /rq6XtOjrp4
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