The Texas Supreme Court rules in favor of upholding the state’s ban on child gender modification.
Loe vs. Texas was seeking to block the implementation of Senate Bill (SB) 14, which bans gender modification treatments and procedures for Texans under 18 years of age.
The case was seeking to block the implementation of Senate Bill (SB) 14, which bans gender modification treatments and procedures for Texans under 18 years of age.
The 8 to 1 decision was delivered by Justice Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle, who wrote, “We conclude the Legislature made a permissible, rational policy choice to limit the types of available medical procedures for children, particularly in light of the relative nascency of both gender dysphoria and its various modes of treatment and the Legislature’s express constitutional authority to regulate the practice of medicine.”
“We therefore conclude the statute does not unconstitutionally deprive parents of their rights or physicians or health care providers of an alleged property right in their medical licenses or claimed right to occupational freedom.”