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AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin City Council on Thursday passed a resolution its members say aims to protect transgender residents. But it's already drawing criticism from Texas Republicans.
The"Transgender Protection Resolution" stops city funds and resources from being used to investigate transgender or nonbinary people for seeking health care. It also says if there is ever a law that punishes transgender people for seeking health care – or anyone who helps those people get health care – city staff should make enforcing that law their lowest priority.
The resolution is aimed at Senate Bill 14, a law passed during the regular legislative session last year, which bans certain medical treatments for transgender children, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers. The law also bans transition-related surgeries, which are rare for minors. Any physicians who break the law can lose their licenses.
Trans people deserve the right to self-determination. Our state has forced them and their medical providers into hiding, and that is wrong," Vela said."Austinites do not prioritize criminal enforcement of rules that limit medical decisions made between families and their doctors, whether that’s the decision to terminate a pregnancy or how to treat a child struggling with gender dysphoria.
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