As Texas House members could soon vote to ban transition-related care for minors, many lives are in limbo, and trans kids like 16-year-old Randell are grappling with difficult decisions.
for such an exemption as long as it doesn’t let trans kids “progress to additional escalating treatments.”
Louis Appel, who serves as president of the Texas Pediatric Society and who has testified against the proposals, echoed this sentiment. Randell, who has been doing usually one testosterone shot every Saturday since he was 14, knows these effects firsthand after accidentally missing them for three weeks earlier this year.
Still, these symptoms are not medical experts’ biggest concerns on this issue. Instead, they have raised the loudest alarms about the potential psychological distress of banning such care.
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