The bill is designed to create such a burden on doctors and insurance companies that they would avoid or even refuse to provide such care, LGBTQ advocates say. ...
, according to a recent study by the Williams Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles. The state also has some 29,000 transgender people ages 13 to 17. This is less than 1.5% of Texans in that age group.
Every major medical and mental health organization, including the American Medical Association and American Psychological Association, support individualized and age-appropriate gender-affirming medical treatments. The Texas Medical Association, the state’s largest physicians group, opposes the bill because of the legal target it places on doctors.
The legislation “very much chips away at Texas’ medical liability reform, which has been so critical to Texas patients and physicians and patient care,” Dr. Gary Floyd, the TMA’s president, said Tuesday. LGBTQ rights advocates say the bill would disincentivize the provision of gender-affirming treatments to transgender people.
“This bill says the quiet part out loud: These attacks are not about ‘protecting kids,’ they are intentionally designed to make life in Texas insufferable for trans people,” said Ricardo Martinez, who leads the LGBTQ rights groupMartinez called on LGBTQ Texans to make their opposition known: “We are ringing the alarm. If you care about your trans neighbors, now is the time to show up.”. Lauren is an investigative reporter focused on state politics and policy.
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