Dr. Steven Hotze’s Testimony on Banning State Funding for Transgender Treatment on Children Texas House Appropriations Committee

My name is Dr. Steven Hotze from Houston, Texas, CEO of the Hotze Health & Wellness Center, CEO of Conservative Republicans of Texas, and Publisher of CRTX News.

I am here to present a provision for the Texas House Appropriations Committee report on the Health and Human Service (HHS) Agency that would protect children from child abuse by the transgender medical industry. The provision would withhold all state funding from any agency, medical institution, public school university, organization, corporation, physician or individual that is involved in promoting the perverted transgender movement and in prescribing sex change drugs and sex mutilation surgery for children.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has ruled that this is child abuse. Governor Abbott has written Family Protective Services that he agrees with General Paxton’s ruling. The Texas Legislature has a responsibility to stop this child abuse.

South Dakota has recently passed legislation to ban transgender procedures on children.

God created two genders, two sexes, male and female. This is a biological fact. The idea that a man can claim to be a woman, or a woman to be a man, is absurd and unscientific. It is a perversion of the God-given natural order.

The 2021 Texas Legislature funded the Texas Child Mental Health Consortium (TCMHCC) $113 million. This consortium is comprised of psychiatrists and psychologists at several Texas universities and medical schools who promote transgenderism to Texas children at public schools through telemedicine.

Texas should lead the way in protecting children from the transgender, pedophilia movement that is perverting children and grooming them to participate in their immoral lifestyles.

Jesus stated that, “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6)

Thank you for protecting children.