Texas House Bill 3399 was an anti-transgender adult bill that was filed and failed to put into effect. This bill served as a revision to a previously existing heading to subchapter X, chapter 161 of the health and safety code.

The original text was phrased to prevent the administering of gender affirming medical procedures to youth who were under the age of 18.

Chapter 161 of the Health and Safety Code prevented the provision of any form of gender reassignment or transitioning from the child’s biological gender. In tandem with this, no health care provider would be permitted to do several medical surgeries including: vasectomies, hysterectomies, phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, among other such surgical procedures.

The second prohibition was the prescription or administering of: any puberty suppression or blocking medicine, testosterone to anyone biologically female, doses of estrogen to anyone biologically male.

On top of the prohibition of providing or prescribing any of these medicines to people based on their biological gender, they also forbade physicians from removing any healthy or non-diseased parts or tissue.

This is a clear attack on transgender people. Previously this chapter of the Health and Safety Code was focused on the transgender youth, the prevision of this bill shifts the target to transgender individuals as a whole.

Following this prohibition of many gender affirming care procedures and prescriptions, this revision posed by House Bill 3399 also prohibited the use of public money for these purposes.

House Bill 3399 States that public money may not be used (directly or indirectly) by any healthcare provider, medical school or any other organization that administers any of the previously mentioned care.

On top of this medical aid such as medicare may not provide any assistance in paying for any of the actions previously discussed given with the intention of altering someone’s gender to one that does not match their biological gender.

House Bill 3399 was filed in the house of Feb. 26, 2025, and was ultimately sent to the public health committee on Mar. 21 of that year. Ultimately the house bill never went into effect.

Despite the failure to be put into effect this house bill being proposed should raise concern among the transgender and queer communities, it is vital that these communities rally to support and enable one another to vote within all elections they are able to. Through the use of the community voices we can fight for change and advocate for the rights and better treatment of our communities!