The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed efforts to temporarily block the state’s near-total ban on gender-affirming care for minors, clearing the way for the measure to take effect Friday.
The law, known as Senate Bill 14, prohibits most minors from receiving treatment common for gender dysphoria, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
Exceptions are provided for intersex patients and for some minors who were already receiving gender-affirming care before June 1, although those minors would be forced to “wean off” any drugs prescribed as part of a treatment plan. Under the law, health care providers who offer such care would have their license revoked.
Texas is among several Republican-led states that advanced bans on gender-affirming care for minors in the last legislative session, prompting legal challenges across the country.
I’m confused at the wording in that sentence. Do they mean there are exceptions for intersex patients and there are also exception for some minors already receiving gender-affirming care (and would have to wean off), or is it saying there are exceptions for intersex and minors already receiving care, but both would have to be weaned off?
If it’s the former, it sounds like intersex people are the only exception, but if it’s the latter it seems like there are none.
I’m reading it as the minors and not the intersex patients will be weaned off treatment because the sentence specifically mentions again minors.