The mother of a transgender boy fought back tears as she testified before the Texas legislature on Tuesday attempting to talk sense into Republican lawmakers who are attempting to pass a bill that could criminalize parents who support their transgender children. “I’m terrified to be here today,” Amber Briggle told the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs. “I’m afraid that by speaking here today that my words will be used against me should S.B.
1646 or S.B. 1311 pass, and my sweet son whom I love more than life itself will be taken from me.” Texas’s S.B. 1646 would redefine child abuse to include “consenting to or assisting in the administering or supplying of a puberty suppression prescription drug or cross-sex hormone to a child,” as