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Photo by Brandon Bell/Staff/Getty Images In February, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) directed family protective agencies to begin investigating child gender transition treatments as child abuse. Last week, the Texas state Supreme Court ruled that those investigations may continue, but they won’t be compulsory.
As The Daily Wire previously reported , on February 22, Abbott wrote a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), stating, “The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has now confirmed in the enclosed opinion that a number of so-called ‘sex change’ procedures constitute child abuse under existing Texas law.”
Since the Department of Family and Protective Services is responsible for protecting children from abuse, the governor’s letter was a directive for them to investigate any reported instances of these procedures in the state of Texas.
Abbott pointed out that Texas law has mandated reporting standards for professionals like doctors, teachers, and nurses, so this directive made it mandatory for those professionals to report the parents of children who are, as he put it, “subjected to these abusive gender-transitioning procedures.” He also said other state agencies have to investigate licensed facilities where such procedures are thought to occur.
The announcement was met with pushback from LGBT activists, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Texas, and Lambda Legal, who filed a lawsuit over Abbott’s direction on behalf of the family of a 16 year-old who claimed to be transgender.
A district judge then blocked an investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services into the parents of that 16-year-old, as well as any similar investigations throughout the state. That ruling was later upheld by a Texas appeals court, but last week, the Texas supreme court struck down that ruling, and reaffirmed that DFPS could resume the investigations.
The big picture is that Texas […]
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