On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that protects children from life-altering transgender procedures. The bill bans children from being given puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and undergoing surgical procedures such as a double mastectomy for girls who identify as ‘boys’. It also prohibits state dollars from being used to fund such procedures for children. “Our children need counselling and love, not blades and drugs,” state Senator Donna Campbell, the author of the bill, said.