The Austin City Council passed a resolution ensuring transgender people may receive gender reassignment therapy.
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its changes to Title IX, which expanded sex-based discrimination in the federal civil rights law to include transgender students.
“Trans people deserve the right to self-determination,” Councilman Jose “Chito” Vela, one of the resolution’s sponsors, said during a Thursday meeting. “Our state has forced them and their medical providers into hiding, and that is wrong. Austin should not be a party to that any more than we legally have to be.”
The resolution ensures that “no City personnel, funds, or resources shall be used to investigate, criminally prosecute, or impose administrative penalties upon” a transgender or nonbinary person seeking healthcare nor an individual or organization providing healthcare to a transgender person.
The resolution also directs law enforcement to make enforcing Senate Bill 14, which bans certain sex assignment treatment options for minors, their lowest priority. The law took effect Sept. 1 and is under review by the Texas Supreme Court.
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