AUSTIN, TX. – A bill which would redefine existing Texas statue Section 261.001, the Family Code on Child Abuse, to include criminalizing actions by physicians or healthcare professionals in assisting Trans youth to transition or arrest the development of puberty as child abuse has passed the state Senate.
Senate Bill 1646 passed on a 18-12 vote. The legislation’s author is State Senator Charles Perry, a Certified Public Accountant from Lubbock in the Western portion of Texas.
In a Senate committee hearing, SB 1646 attracted over four-and-a-half hours of public testimony from LGBTQ Texans, their parents and several state and national medical associations opposing the bill’s intrusion into intimate medical decisions, the Texas Tribune