Elliot Page attends the 2021 Met Gala.Photo: John Shearer/WireImage
Elliot Pageis condemning Texas officials' recent declaration thatclassifies gender-affirming surgeriesamong youth as “child abuse.”
“Trans youth deserve gender-affirming care and to be able to live their true, authentic selves without fear and oppression,” Page continued. “I stand with trans youth and their families.”
Page’s statement echoed his sentiments from a similar Instagram post shared on Tuesday. “Horrific,” he wrote atop a report, in addition to using the hashtag, “#protecttranskids.”
A representative for Page did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Gabrielle Union, whose 14-year-old stepdaughterZaya Wadeis transgender, also called out the Texas officials' statements.
“This is where we are,” shetweetedWednesday. “We shot past dangerous and horrific a long time ago. The rubber has hit the road so who is standing shoulder to shoulder in this fight? Who truly gives a sh*t and whose on that performative bs? Let’s see.”
SheaddedThursday, “Texas, Florida and states across the country are passing these bills/legislation at alarming speed. This is real life. These are real children and families being targeted. Still think it’s worth joking about???”
In astatementMonday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared “‘sex-change’ procedures on children” will be considered “child abuse” in the state.
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“Performing certain ‘sex-change’ procedures on children, and prescribing puberty-blockers to them, is ‘child abuse’ under Texas law,” the controversial message read. “The holding comes at a critical time when more and more Texans are seeing the horrors that flow from the merging of medicine and misguided ideology.”
“There is no doubt that these procedures are ‘abuse’ under Texas law, and thus must be halted,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) has a responsibility to act accordingly. I’ll do everything I can to protect against those who take advantage of and harm young Texans.”
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Abbott noted that an opinion from the Office of Attorney General (OAG) states “it is already against the law to subject Texas children to a wide variety of elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or estrogen.”
He also said that under Texas law, professionals such as doctors and teachers “who have direct contact with children who may be subject to such abuse” are subject to “criminal penalties for failure to report such abuse.”
source: people.com
