Chilling Texan bill defines parents of trans kids consenting to healthcare as ‘child abusers’

Texas Senate Bill 1646 was filed on 11 March, 2021, and is sponsored by 13 Republican state senators.

The bill states that a person will be considered guilty of child abuse by “consenting to or assisting in the administering or supplying of, a puberty suppression prescription drug or cross-sex hormone to a child, other than an intersex child, for the purpose of gender transitioning or gender reassignment” or “performing or consenting to the performance of surgery or another medical procedure on a child, other than an intersex child, for the...