AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate on Monday approved a bill to ban certain medical treatments for transgender minors, after stripping out an amendment that would have allow current patients to continue receiving care.
Senate Bill 14 was passed by a vote of 19-11 along partisan lines after removing the amendment, which had been added last week. The bill, a priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s, needs one more vote of approval in the Senate before it can head to the Texas House for further debate.
Bill author Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, suggested the amendment grandfathering in people already getting the treatments during debate on the Senate floor last week. The House author of an identical bill also supported the amendment, which would have allowed minors receiving gender-affirming medical care 90 days before the bill goes into effect on Sept. 1 to continue those treatments.
