Texas Representative Brent Money [R] introduced HB 3399 February 26, 2025, prohibiting adults from receiving gender affirming care. Money, a first-year lawmaker's campaign was funded by a PAC with connections to white supremacist Nicholas Fuentes.
HB 3399 is identical to the law banning minor trans affirming health care with the exception that Child has been crossed out, making it an all age healthcare ban.
The bill would also prohibit gender nonconforming people from using online resources to acquire medication and from traveling out of state for gender affirming surgeries.
Activist Debi Jackson noted that it targets both hormones and surgery. Individuals who have already started hormones and have done the twelve required mental health sessions will still be forced to "wean" themselves off the medication. It's not just a cut to state insurance funding for these procedures, it makes them completely illegal.
This line —> Provide, prescribe, administer, or dispense…” is scary. It is currentmy defined as an act by a “healthcare provider”, but because folks in the UK used that as a way to get telehealth services that allowed them to travel to get medications, they redefined it to include anyone — doctors, pharmacists, NPs, parents. Anyone who picks up a medication, delivers it, injects it, hands a person a patch or pill. This is how they criminalize traveling for care and coming back with prescriptions. This is something to watch closely for changes as the bill moves.
There is an accompanying bill filed in the Senate. If the facists are sucessfull in passing these bills it will go into affect September 1, 2025.
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