The Texas Senate preliminarily approved a bill Tuesday that could effectively cause all transgender Texans to lose access to transition-related care by making doctors and health insurers liable for any complications, even if the providers are not at fault.
for this session like SB 14, which have limited their focus to restricting transition-related medical care only for trans youth.
And because of the state’s size, this could have an outsized impact on trans Americans. In Texas, there are approximately 93,000 trans adults — less than 0.5% of the state’s adult population — according tofrom the University of California, Los Angeles’ Williams Institute. But the raw figures indicate that Texas has one of the largest trans communities in the U.S. Around 30,000 Texans aged 13 to 17 are trans, which is about 1.5% of this age group’s population.
“If a patient comes in and requests a procedure and the physician provides the procedure and does so competently, that physician is nevertheless liable to that patient for anything that follows that procedure. That is the intent of the bill?” Sen.“That seems to be contrary to everything in contract law in [the] history of Western civilization, but it’s in the bill,” Johnson responded., D-San Antonio, also unsuccessfully attempted to amend the bill.
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