I don’t think criminalisation is the way to go

[TheSandgroper]

And I don’t care to support the Texan government (just as well I am a long way from there). Using a hammer to crack a walnut springs to mind.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/alabama-transgender-medical-care-ban-texas-abbott-arkansas-idaho-teenagers-puberty-blockers-hormone-therapy/

When it comes to puberty blockers, x-sex hormones and irreversible surgery to remove healthy body parts from children I agree that it should be illegal.
I'd also like to see the so called Dr's who provide double mastectomies on 12 year old girls jailed and have their licences permanently revoked

The Texas governor argues that PBs, surgery and cross sex hormones are already illegal in Texas under current law. So I imagine this law is more of a clarification than a wholesale change.

Personally I'm not a fan of this type of micromanaging legislation but the US healthcare system is very different from here and parents with money in the US can subject their kids to treatments which no UK doctor would sanction and would see them arrested here.

Sorry, just realised I misread and it was Alabama copying texas' stance, not a change in Texan law.

I can't oppose this.
I'd love to oppose it, yknow seeing as I'm not a right wing American gun swinging evangelical Christian, and even though I'm not, I'm still 100% behind this legislation.

Using a hammer to crack a walnut springs to mind

you think sterilising children is just a 'walnut' OP ?

yikes. you and I have very different value systems

No, I don’t think sterilisation of children is a walnut at all. I just wish that the legislation encouraged other methods of discouragement before bringing out the biggest gun they can think of.

I do understand that finding those other methods of discouragement is getting more and more difficult. Perhaps I’m just saddened and demoralised about it tonight.

Well, just as US issues really can't be superimposed on the UK with our completely different history, culture and legislation, the reverse applies.