Last night, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy described the state of Texas as dangerous for its opposition to trans mutilation of minors.
In the episode, “Blood, Sweat and Tears,” on Thursday, a “trans” child named “Caroline” flies all the way from Texas to Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital in Seattle for neurosurgery on a tumor. She and her mother consider Texas too hostile to trust doctors there. Caroline’s family knows Dr. Monica Beltran (Natalie Morales), one of Grey-Sloan’s doctors, because Beltran previously practiced in Texas.
Caroline needs surgery on a neurofibroma, which is “a spontaneous growth in the nerve tissue” that can damage the nerve. The surgery itself does not relate to the child’s trans identity, but the mother and child are uncomfortable with Texas doctors operating on her for anything at all.
Last year, Texas banned puberty blockers, hormone “therapy”…
