City Council Members in Texas greenlit a resolution last week effectively designating the state’s capital as a sanctuary for gender-mutilation procedures and chemical castration.
Texas Scorecard reports that prior to the council session, activists congregated outside city hall to express their dissent.
The resolution, proposed by the city’s LGBTQ Quality of Life Advisory Commission, outlines that Austin will abstain from employing any personnel, funds or resources towards the investigation, criminal prosecution or imposition of administrative penalties on individuals seeking gender-mutilative procedures or those aiding them in this pursuit.
One outspoken activist was Soren Aldaco, a destransitioner who underwent cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers as a minor.
At the age of 19, Aldaco underwent a double mastectomy, an ordeal that nearly claimed her life, she says.
Aldaco has since filed a lawsuit against doctors whom she claims pressured her into adopting a transgender identity at the age of 15.
Members, however, approved the resolution with a 9-1 vote, despite extensive public commentary against the measure.
Only Council Member Mackenzie Kelly opposed, the outlet reported.
“After experiencing no dearth of complications related to these treatments, I chose to make peace with my sex instead of fighting it,” Aldaco, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, stated.
She has taken legal action, marking one of the initial lawsuits of its kind, aimed at holding practitioners accountable.
Aldaco highlighted the existence of state law, specifically Senate Bill 14, which bars gender mutilative procedures on minors, rendering the city’s recent actions largely inconsequential.
“This proposal is entirely ornamental given that SB 14 is not enforced criminally, and intentionally so,” she pointed out, noting the law’s enforcement jurisdiction lies with the Texas Medical Board, not local law enforcement.
Aldaco also condemned the proposal by the LGBTQ commision, suggesting its ulterior motive is to endorse experimental medicine that pathologizes gender nonconformity and perpetuates sexist stereotypes among children.
Grant Miller, a student who “detransitioned” from being a transgender woman last November, echoed Aldaco’s sentiments by voicing his agreements while decrying the practices of doctors nationwide, per Texas Scorecard.
“Doctors across the country are putting children on blockers and hormones, they are chopping off breasts, and they are mutilating children with so-called bottom surgery,” he asserted.
Michelle Evans, the incoming Williamson County GOP Chair and Round Rock Chapter Chair for Independent Women’s Network, also vehemently criticized the council members advocating for the resolution.
“The enforcement of this law rests not with any city department or agency, but rather the Texas Medical Board. Yet five woefully uninformed and ideologically driven council members find it somehow meaningful to profess their belief in the importance of these barbaric services and procedures, which had been soundly rejected by science and other civilized countries as ineffective and unethical,” Evans declared.
Evans also relayed a statement from State Rep. Brian Harrison (R–Midlothian), who cautioned that such actions “make it abundantly clear that this Council is unfit to manage the capital city of the greatest state in our country.”
“If this resolution passes, the State should also consider enacting legislation to make any council member who votes for resolutions like this personally liable for any costs associated with and harms resulting from the de facto sanctioning and facilitation of these illegal procedures, which result in the mutilation of children and cause them to needlessly become lifelong medical patients,” Harrison emphasized.
Attorney General Ken Paxotn dismissed the resolution as “an empty political statement,” but pledged to ensure that SB 14 was enforced statewide.
“If the City of Austin refuses to follow the law and protect children, my office will consider every possible response to ensure compliance. Texas municipalities do not have the authority to pick and choose which state laws they will or will not abide by. The people of Texas have spoken, and Austin City Council must listen,” Paxton asserted.
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