Breaking: Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Friday a bill that bars transgender youth from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapies, though the new law could face legal challenges before it takes effect on Sept. 1.
“Cruelty has always been the point,” said Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas. “It’s not shocking that this governor would sign SB14 right at the beginning of Pride [Month]; however this will not stop trans people from continuing to exist with authenticity — as we always have.”, the law bars trans kids from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapies, treatments many medical groups support.
But trans kids, their parents and major medical groups say these medical treatments are important to protecting the mental health of an already vulnerable population, which faces a higher risk of depression and suicide than their cisgender peers. At the same time, doctors say cutting off these treatments — gradually or abruptly — could bring bothto trans youth, some of whom have called it forced detransitioning.
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