A Texas judge has temporarily barred a law banning cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for kids from taking effect Friday.
Senate Bill 14, which would have taken effect Monday, bars doctors from providing a variety of sex change surgeries to minors, including orchiectomy, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty. The law also bars providing sex change hormones and puberty blockers to kids. The law provides an exception for the rare occurrences in which individuals are born with both male and female body parts. The use of Medicaid funds for such medical interventions is also banned.
The bill was signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott June 2.(RELATED: Mom Sues School That Allegedly Hid Her Daughter’s Gender Identity, Led To Her Trafficking And Sexual Abuse)
The Texas Attorney General’s office appealed the ruling to the Texas Supreme Court the same day it was issued.
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