Citing potential criminal penalties, Texas Children’s Hospital will no longer provide hormone therapy to transgender patients.
Texas temporarily blocked from investigating the family of a trans teen over gender-affirming care
Most gender-affirming care focuses on "social transition" — allowing a child to express their gender however they see fit. Some children are also given puberty blockers, a completely reversible prescription that has been used for decades to delay early-onset puberty. Paxton’s opinion also said body modification surgeries could be considered child abuse, but medical experts say those are rarely, if ever, performed on children.
Health care systems across the state have altered medical procedures in response to child abuse claims. GENECIS, a Dallas-based health program that offered hormone therapy to transgender children,Harris Co. District Attorney speaks out against Abbott’s statements on transgender children District Attorney for Harris County, Kim Ogg says she will not prosecute parents under Governor Greg Abbott’s new directive regarding transgender children.found that transgender people who began hormone treatment in adolescence had fewer thoughts of suicide, were less likely to experience major mental health disorders and had fewer problems with substance abuse than those who started hormones later in life.
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