course, put their spin on it with the associated press describing sb 14 this way,. the gop controlled legislature is pushing to make texas the latest conservative state to crack down on medical care and get this, the rights of transgender people, the rights of transgender people, that is not what this is about at all. we are talkingwh about children, children having life changing chiloperations that are irreversible. contrast this with washington state, where democrats havetorst just made it legal for doctors to perform a number of these procedures without parental consent. mastectomies, without parentaler consent and without even parental notification. enif there are, quote, compellig reasons not to notify pathe parent, imagine if this were your child. some are calling it statme are e sanctioned kidnapping. if you ask americans there are e no two sides to this debate. a new washington post poll found that an overwhelming majority of americans oppose puberty blocking hormones
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of my surgery just before goingt to the operating table wased the first time that i sawgether my father shed tears. but together, my mom, my dad and i prayed, and only by thee o strength of god and the support of my family was i able to do it as a mother to a sweet three year old girl.ynd h i hope my daughter doeops not have to endure the same journey that i did. upon an i wouldn t wish it upon anyoneys the decision to have aa mastectomy is a difficult one , not to be taken lightlymat and not to be made by an innocent child in the firm grasp of state government. no government authority carried my child from conception to birth. no blue governor will ever love my child the way that i do. no liberal state shouldg a pi sanction my child. losing a pieceec of herself. and yet that s exactly what democrats are enabling. last week, texasattorney gen attorney general ken paxton, he opened an investigatioonn intoin a major children s hospital called dels. paildren told children sto s hoe me med