Texas Senate Votes to Restrict Transgender Health Care
May 21, 2021
The Texas Senate recently passed a bill banning physicians from treating youths under age 18 for the purpose of gender transitioning. Medical experts and transgender advocates call the bill unconstitutional and criticize its negative impact on mental health. In Issues, Adam Briggle, a Texas philosopher who has a transgender child, provides a powerful look at why restricting medical care for transitioning young people is misguided and how society might set things aright. At heart, he writes, we should look beyond science and politics and “reconsider what it means to be human and to be among other humans.”