What transition-related health care is available to transgender kids in Texas? Here’s what you should know.

Protesters opposing bills that would limit transgender kids’ access to puberty blockers and hormone therapies rally at the Texas Capitol on March 1. (Credit: Lauren Witte/The Texas Tribune)

For the second consecutive legislative session, some Republican Texas lawmakers are pushing bills that seek to limit the kind of health care treatments — like puberty blockers and hormone therapy — that leading medical associations support for trans children and young adults.

Nearly 30,000 13- to 17-year-olds in Texas identified as trans in a federal survey published in 2022 — and this is likely an undercount.