Texas bans gender transition in minors

Texas bans gender transition in minors

Like Ron DeSantis in Florida, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law that prohibits doctors from prescribing hormone blockers or performing gender transition surgeries on minors.

the governor of TexasGreg Abbott, signed a law last Friday that prohibits medical treatment for minors transgenderand thus becomes the largest district in USA to impose such restrictions.

The signed law will enter into force on September 1 and prohibits doctors from prescribing hormone blockers or performing gender transition surgeries on children under 18 years of age. The legislation includes an exception for minors already receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy, but requires that they “cease taking the prescribed medication for a period of time and in a manner that is safe and medically appropriate.”

The Democrats, for their part, denounce and repudiate the actions of the republican governorsin the framework of the violation of fundamental rights for society.

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President Joe Biden asked in March to eliminate these regulationswhich he dismissed as “attacks” and denounced as “anti-American”.

Texas and Florida against sex education and gender change

Texas thus joins Florida, who, hand in hand with its Republican governor Ron DeSantis, signed a similar bill in May. Both States, two of the three most populous in the United States, set their position according to gender change and its clinical processes.

Florida also prohibited the teaching of topics related to sexual orientation and gender identity in all school courses, which stipulates that public schools “shall not knowingly provide instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity” from kindergarten through the last year of college. secondary.

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Courtesy Miami News 24

The only way to teach about these topics is for the classes to be “required by state academic standards,” which is not the case, or to “be part of a reproductive health course” from which parents can withdraw their children. .

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