Thread by @lmcgaughy

Up now in Texas Senate: #SB1029 which would prohibit public $ for "provision or administration" of gender-affirming care for all ages of patients.

Would also make insurers "strictly liable" to pay for detransitions, and make it easier to sue doctors for malpractice. #txlege

Sen @NathanForTexas asks: "If a patient comes in and requests a procedure, and the physician provides the procedure and does so competently, that physician is nevertheless liable to that patient for anything that follows that procedure?"

@SenBobHall: "That's it." #txlege

@NathanForTexas @SenBobHall Sen @sarah_eckhardt asks if an adult gets gender modification surgery then can tell the doctor who provided it: "Now you must pay for all of my subsequent treatment for the rest of my life?"

Hall: "Related to the surgery." #txlege #SB1029 #LGBTQ

@NathanForTexas @SenBobHall @sarah_eckhardt Here is the language of the bill.

It says doctors are "strictly liable to the patient for the patient's medical, mental health, and pharmaceutical costs, including costs associated with reversing a gender modification procedure or treatment..." #txlege #SB1029

@NathanForTexas @SenBobHall @sarah_eckhardt "...incurred for the life of the patient as a result of the procedure or treatment."

#txlege #SB1029

@NathanForTexas @SenBobHall @sarah_eckhardt Sen @Menendez4Texas offers amendment to simply require insurance coverage for detransitioning (instead of current language about malpractice).

It fails by a vote of 12-18. #txlege #SB1029

Sen @Menendez4Texas offers amendment banning gender-affirming surgery for minors while allowing adults to do as they wish.

Bill author @SenBobHall objects.

Amendment fails 12-18. #txlege #SB1029

@Menendez4Texas @SenBobHall Sen @Menendez4Texas offers a third amendment to grandfather in current patients.

It fails 12-18. #txlege #SB1029

@Menendez4Texas @SenBobHall Menendez offers final amendment, which would ban conversion therapy.

Hall opposed the amendment, saying he sees banning conversion therapy and allowing gender affirming care would be akin to treating an alcoholic by making them drink more.

#txlege #SB1029 #LGBTQ #transgender

@Menendez4Texas @SenBobHall Hall: "The current practice of only allowing affirmative care to me would be like the psychologist, if an alcoholic comes to you and is trying to get off of alcohol, the only counseling you can give them is a need to drink more alcohol and get used to being drunk." #txlege #LGBTQ

@Menendez4Texas @SenBobHall Menendez's final amendment fails 12-18.

Hall moves to pass the bill. It passes by a vote of 18-12. It needs one more vote to get final passage in Senate and head to House for more debate.

#txlege #SB1029 #LGBTQ #transgender