On Wednesday, the Senate passed SB 14, which bans healthcare providers from performing "gender transitioning or gender reassignment procedures" on children under 18 years old.

Specifically, the bill prohibits subjecting minors to sterilizing surgeries, including castrations and hysterectomies, mastectomies, and procedures to "remove any otherwise healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue." It also outlaws providing or prescribing children puberty blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones.

The bill, authored by Republican state Sen. Donna Campbell, includes exceptions for children with precocious puberty, a "medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development," or an abnormal sex chromosome structure, as determined through genetic testing.

SB 14 requires the Texas medical board to revoke the licenses of physicians who violate the bill and allows the state attorney general to bring actions to enforce it.

It additionally blocks public funding for any entity or individual that "provides or facilitates" "gender transition" procedures for children and prohibits Medicaid reimbursement and public health coverage for the practices.

Campbell described the bill as a "child protection act." "The children need counseling and love, not blades and drugs," she said.

But Campbell worked with Democratic state Sen. José Menéndez to water down the bill before passage, amending it to allow minors who are already receiving puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones 90 days before the bill takes effect to continue doing so.

The amended bill passed in a 19-11 vote, along party lines, and would take effect September 1.

In the Texas House, nearly 80 lawmakers have introduced a stricter bill to ban child "gender transitions," HB 1686. It has yet to pass out of the House Public Health Committee... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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