AUSTIN, TX - Today the Texas House of Representatives took a critical step towards ending the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of children by passing SB 14 to engrossment. Eighteen other states have already protected children from these horrific and abusive practices.

SB 14 has been scheduled for a vote on the House Floor for the third time on May 12. Previously threatened rulings on points of order by Speaker Dade Phelan have prevented it from passing. Should Speaker Phelan seek to delay or sustain a Democrat point of order against SB 14, we ask every Republican member of the Texas House to appeal the ruling of the chair and vote to pass this legislation immediately.