Texas Governor Outlaws Transgender Care for Minors

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill banning hormone and puberty blocking treatments, as well as surgeries, for transgender minors, making Texas the largest state to ban transition medical care for people under 18. The bill would prohibit doctors from performing mastectomies or surgeries that would sterilize a minor or remove otherwise healthy tissue or body parts, and from prescribing drugs that would induce transient or permanent infertility. The law reflects an effort in Texas and in much of the country by Republican elected leaders to restrict transgender rights.