FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 3, 2023
BREAKING: Texas Protects Minors from “Transition” Procedures
The new law protects minors from dangerous transgender interventions
Today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 14, making Texas the seventeenth state with a law protecting vulnerable children from both sex-change surgeries and experimental hormones aimed at “transition.” The law holds healthcare professionals accountable by providing child victims an opportunity to sue for damages.
Autumn Leva, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Family Policy Alliance, responded:
“Today, Texas has sent a clear message: they take child safety seriously. When a child is deeply struggling, he or she deserves meaningful help – not the harm of experimental hormones and surgery.
“And these interventions do cause serious harm. They often leave young people sterile, with a variety of irreversible maladies and physical changes, and the deep pain of regret. All this can happen before a child is even old enough to buy cough syrup over the counter.
“This bill is standing in the gap.
“We are so grateful for the tireless work of our friends and allies at Texas Values, who shepherded this bill throughout the process. Their courageous leadership, and the hard work of the representatives who sponsored and supported this bill, was instrumental in making today possible. And, we thank Governor Abbott for his decision to protect children by signing the bill today.”
Family Policy Alliance (FPA) began work on protecting minors from transgender interventions in 2017, when the group first drafted an early version of what is now the Help Not Harm Act. In 2021, FPA launched its Help Not Harm campaign following the passage of Arkansas’s SAFE Act (the first successful bill in the nation to offer these protections).
To date, 17 states have Help Not Harm-like laws (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah). In 2023, 26 states introduced Help Not Harm-like bills.
Media Contact:
Robert Noland, (719) 308-2822, Media@FamilyPolicyAlliance.com
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